Vacuum densities in braneworlds

Abstract

We give a short review of the recent development in the investigation of the vacuum expectation values of the bulk and surface energy-momentum tensors generated by quantum fluctuations of a massive scalar field with general curvature coupling parameter subject to Robin boundary conditions on two codimension one parallel branes located on $(D+1)$-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) bulk. An application to the Randall-Sundrum braneworld with arbitrary mass terms on the branes is discussed.

6 pages, talk presented at the First International Congress of Armenian Physicists, 11-15 September, 2005, Yerevan, Armenia