Abstract
The vacuum average of the energy density of a free, massless scalar field around a conical flux-tube singularity in d+1 space-time dimensions is calculated. A complex contour method is employed and the results involve higher-order Bernoulli polynomials. The formulas might have applications to cosmic strings.
- Received 4 May 1987
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.36.3095
©1987 American Physical Society
