Spinor fields in an Einstein Universe. The vacuum-averaged stress-energy tensor
- 15 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 17 (2) , 417-422
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.17.417
Abstract
The spin-1/2 Green's function in an Einstein universe is computed explicitly and used to evaluate the vacuum-averaged stress-energy tensor. In the massless limit we find Ford's value .
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