Vacuum polarization in the gravitational field of a cosmic string
- 15 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 35 (12) , 3779-3782
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.35.3779
Abstract
The contributions of the scalar massless, neutrino, and electromagnetic fields to the vacuum polarization in the gravitational field of a cosmic string are found.Keywords
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