1997/01/17 by Xinwei Kong, Kong, Xinwei, Finn Ravndal +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #hep-th #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9701022
6 pages, Latex
arxiv created 1997/01/17 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
The regularized total Casimir energy in spacetimes with boundaries is not in general equal to the integral of the regularized energy density. This paradoxical phenomenon is most transparently analyzed in the simple example of a massless scalar field in 1+1 dimensions confined to a line element of length L and obeying Dirichlet boundary conditions.