Eur. Phys. J. C (2015) 75: 516
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3750-9

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Effective action for a quantum scalar field in warped spaces

Departamento de Física e Química, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”-UNESP, Av. Ariberto Pereira da Cunha 333, Pedregulho, Guaratinguetá, SP, Brazil

^* e-mail: eslley@feg.unesp.br

Received: 28 May 2015
Accepted: 20 October 2015
Published online: 30 October 2015

Abstract

We investigate the one-loop corrections, at zero as well as finite temperature, of a scalar field taking place in a braneworld motivated warped background. After to reach a well-defined problem, we calculate the effective action with the corresponding quantum corrections to each case.