Quantum fluctuations of some gravitational waves

1998/09/08 by Y. Enginer, M. Hortacsu, R. Kaya +3
Physics and Astronomy · #gr-qc

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published as Indian J.Pure Appl.Math. 29 (1998) 1029 · an important typographical error is corrected

arxiv created 1998/09/08 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We review our previous work on the the calculation of the stress-energy tensor for a scalar particle in the background metric of different types of spherical impulsive, spherical shock and plane impulsive gravitational waves.

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