Abstract
We show through Schwinger's approach that in a static weak gravitational
background, the Casimir Energy for a real massless scalar field obeying
Dirichlet boundary conditions on rectangular plates is unaltered from
it's flat space-time value, at least to second order in the
gravitational parameters. The result is obtained considering an rather
general class of backgrounds, adding further generality and consistency
test for the previous work. The proposed result has direct consequences
on earlier works in the literature that found gravity related
corrections for similar setups and in the measurability of future vacuum
weight experiments. We also investigate higher order corrections using a
simplified toy model geometry, finding nonzero corrections in this case.
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