Analytical regularisation for confined quantum fields between parallel   surfaces
  We review a simple technique for evaluating the vacuum energy stemming from non-trivial boundary conditions and review results for the Casimir energy of a massive fermionic field confined in a d+1-dimensional slab-bag and the effect of a uniform magnetic field on the vacuum energy of confined massive bosonic and fermionic fields. New results concerning the Casimir energy and the evaluation of the rate of creation of quanta in kappa-deformed theories are presented. 
F C Santos, A C Tort and E Elizalde