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Casimir effect for regions with broken symmetry of boundaries

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A method is proposed for computing corrections to the Casimir force caused by a broken symmetry of the boundaries. The values of these corrections are obtained for a parallelepiped in the case of scalar and electromagnetic fields.

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 7, pp. 68–72, July, 1988.

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Zayaev, Y.B., Kazakov, A.Y., Mostepanenko, V.M. et al. Casimir effect for regions with broken symmetry of boundaries. Soviet Physics Journal 31, 575–578 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00917552

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