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arxiv: 0707.3240 · v2 · submitted 2007-07-22 · ✦ hep-th · astro-ph· gr-qc

Casimir effect in de Sitter spacetime with compactified dimension

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keywords vacuumpartsittercompactifieddimensionenergy-momentumexpectationfield
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We investigate the Hadamard function, the vacuum expectation values of the field square and the energy-momentum tensor of a scalar field with general curvature coupling parameter in de Sitter spacetime compactified along one of spatial dimensions. By using the Abel-Plana summation formula, we have explicitly extracted from the vacuum expectation values the part due to the compactness of the spatial dimension. The topological part in the vacuum energy-momentum tensor violates the local de Sitter symmetry and dominates in the early stages of the cosmological evolution. At late times the corresponding vacuum stresses are isotropic and the topological part corresponds to an effective gravitational source with barotropic equation of state.

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