New Casimir Energy Calculations

Abstract

New Casimir energy results for massless scalar field in some 3 -dimensional cavities are presented. We attempted to discuss the correlation between the sign and the magnitude of the energy and the shape of the cavities. Sign of the Casimir energy known to be dependent on the dimension, topology and the shape of the geometry. In this note we present some new exact results for massless scalar fields in three dimensional cavities with the trivial topology. We then compare the known Casimir energy values for several three dimensional cavities. The conclusion we arrived is that the existence of the corners lowers the vacuum energy.