Vacuum fluctuations for spherical gravitational impulsive waves

Hortacsu M.

CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY, cilt.13, sa.10, ss.2683-2691, 1996 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 13 Sayı: 10
  • Basım Tarihi: 1996
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1088/0264-9381/13/10/008
  • Dergi Adı: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.2683-2691
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

We propose a method for calculating vacuum fluctuations on the background of a spherical impulsive gravitational wave which results in a finite expression for the vacuum expectation value of the stress energy tensor. The method is based on first including a cosmological constant as an auxiliary constant. We show that the result for the vacuum expectation value of the stress-energy tensor in second-order perturbation theory is finite if both the cosmological constant and the infrared parameter tend to zero at the same rate.