QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS OF A SPHERICAL GRAVITATIONAL SHOCK-WAVE

HORTACSU M.

CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY, cilt.9, sa.6, ss.1619-1629, 1992 (SCI İndekslerine Giren Dergi) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 9 Konu: 6
  • Basım Tarihi: 1992
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1088/0264-9381/9/6/016
  • Dergi Adı: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1619-1629

Özet

We show that quantum fluctuations, in particular vacuum polarization, vanish in the background of the spherical shock wave solution of the Einstein field equations, recently found by Nutku. This result is due to the smoothness properties of the new solution.