Vacuum polarization in the Schwarzschild spacetime and dimensional reduction

R. Balbinot^1,*, A. Fabbri^1,†, P. Nicolini^1,‡, V. Frolov^2,§, P. Sutton^3,**, and A. Zelnikov^2,4,††
1Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Bologna and INFN sezione di Bologna, Via Irnerio 46, 40126 Bologna, Italy
²Theoretical Physics Institute, Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2J1
³Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania 16802-6300
⁴P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Leninsky pr. 53, Moscow 117924, Russia

^*Electronic address: balbinot@bo.infn.it

^†Electronic address: fabbria@bo.infn.it

^‡Electronic address: nicolini@bo.infn.it

^§Electronic address: frolov@phys.ualberta.ca

^**Electronic address: psutton@gravity.phys.psu.edu

^††Electronic address: zelnikov@phys.ualberta.ca