Polyhedral cosmic strings
Abstract
Quantum field theory in Möbius corners is discussed using the method of images. The vacuum average of the stress-energy tensor of a free field is derived and is shown to be a simple sum of straight cosmic-string expressions. It does not seem possible to set up a spin-1/2 theory easily.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- October 1992
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.46.3458
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/9206036
- Bibcode:
- 1992PhRvD..46.3458D
- Keywords:
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- 03.70.+k;
- 02.40.+m;
- Theory of quantized fields;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 15 pages, 4 text figures not included