RADIAL CASIMIR EFFECT IN A SPHERE THROUGH THE KREIN SPACE QUANTIZATION
Abstract
We make an explicit calculation of Casimir effect through an alternative approach of field quantization for a spherical shell in which only the radial part of fluctuation has been taken into account. In this method, negative norm states have been utilized to obtain a natural renormalized theory with the condition that they cannot be affected by the physical boundary conditions. It is shown that by using this method, the exact result is obtained without any appearance of infinity.