Quantum fluctuations of the light cone in four-dimensional spacetime with parallel plane boundaries

Quantum fluctuations of the light cone are examined in a four-dimensional spacetime with two parallel planes. Both the Dirichlet and the Neumann boundary conditions are considered. In all the cases we have studied, quantum light cone fluctuations are greater where the Neumann boundary conditions are imposed, suggesting that quantum light cone fluctuations depend not only on the geometry and topology of the spacetime as has been argued elsewhere but also on boundary conditions. Our results also show that quantum light cone fluctuations are larger here than that in the case of a single plane. Therefore the confinement of gravitons in a smaller region by the presence of a second plane reinforces the quantum fluctuations and this can be understood as a consequence of the uncertainty principle.