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Quantum Effects in the Spacetime of a Magnetic Flux Cosmic String

arXiv:hep-th/0305029 · doi:10.1142/S0217751X03015532

Abstract

In this work we compute the vacuum expectation values of the energy-momentum tensor and the average value of a massive, charged scalar field in the presence of a magnetic flux cosmic string for both zero- and finite-temperature cases.

To appear in the Int. Journal of Modern Phys. A (special issue). Proceedings of the Second International Londrina Winter School on Mathematical Methods in Physics, Londrina, Brazil, August 2002