QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS OF A SPHERICAL GRAVITATIONAL SHOCK-WAVE

HORTACSU M.

CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY, vol.9, no.6, pp.1619-1629, 1992 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 9 Issue: 6
  • Publication Date: 1992
  • Doi Number: 10.1088/0264-9381/9/6/016
  • Journal Name: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.1619-1629
  • Istanbul Technical University Affiliated: No

Abstract

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.