Published January 2006 | Version v1
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The Euclidean scalar Green function in the five-dimensional Kaluza-Klein magnetic monopole space-time

  • 1. Departamento de Fisica-CCEN, Universidade Federal da Paraiba, C. Postal 5.008, J. Pessoa, PB 58.059-970 (Brazil)

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In this paper we present, in a integral form, the Euclidean Green function associated with a massless scalar field in the five-dimensional Kaluza-Klein magnetic monopole superposed to a global monopole, admitting a nontrivial coupling between the field with the geometry. This Green function is expressed as the sum of two contributions: the first one related with uncharged component of the field, is similar to the Green function associated with a scalar field in a four-dimensional global monopole space-time. The second contains the information of all the other components. Using this Green function it is possible to study the vacuum polarization effects on this space-time. Explicitly we calculate the renormalized vacuum expectation value <Φ*(x)Φ(x)>Ren, which by its turn is also expressed as the sum of two contributions

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Journal Title
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Journal Volume
47
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 012302-012302.14
ISSN
0022-2488
CODEN
JMAPAQ

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