Abstract
Using Kaluza-Klein theory we study the quantum mechanics of a scalar particle in the background of a chiral cosmic string and of a magnetic cosmic string. We show that the wave functions and the energy spectra associated with the particle depend on the global features of those space–times. These dependences represent the analogs of the well-known Aharonov–Bohm effect. This effect appears as the sum of two contributions, one of gravitational origin and the other of electromagnetic origin.
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