Abstract

Wightman function and the vacuum expectation value of the scalar field squared are studied in models with a compact subspace in the presence of parallel plane boundaries, on which the field obeys Robin boundary conditions. By means of the generalized Abel-Plana summation formula we have explicitly extracted from the vacuum expectation values the parts induced by the boundaries. As a simple example, a one-dimensional internal space is considered compactified on a circle.

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