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Casimir effect in multiply connected space-time. Massive fields

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The vacuum energy density is calculated for all topologically nonequivalent configurations of massive scalar and spinor fields in space-times with topology (S1)2 × R2 and planar metric.

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 9, pp. 27–30, September, 1982.

In conclusion the author is grateful to A. B. Venkov and L. A. Takhtadzhyan for discussing summation equations.

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Goncharov, Y.P. Casimir effect in multiply connected space-time. Massive fields. Soviet Physics Journal 25, 791–794 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00892390

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