On Schwinger's method for obtaining the Casimir effect

DOI10.1007/BF00939704zbMATH Open0860.58037arXivhep-th/9312069OpenAlexW3102817581MaRDI QIDQ1317892FDOQ1317892

Authors: M. V. Cougo-Pinto, C. Farina, Antonio J. Segui Santonja 

Publication date: 22 March 1994

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: After briefly reviewing how the (proper-time) Schwinger's formula works for computing the Casimir energy in the case of "scalar electrodynamics" where the boundary conditions are dictated by two perfectly conducting parallel plates with separation "a" in the Z-axis, we propose a slightly modification in the previous approach based on an analytical continuation method. As we will see, for the case at hand our formula does not need the use of Poisson summation to get a (renormalized) finite result.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9312069

zbMATH Keywords

Casimir effectmassless scalar theorySchwinger's method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems on manifolds (58J32) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90)

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• On Gauge Invariance and Vacuum Polarization
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