Applications in physics of the multiplicative anomaly formula involving some basic differential operators

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00442-8zbMATH Open0956.81047arXivhep-th/9804118OpenAlexW2081535503MaRDI QIDQ1570656FDOQ1570656

Authors: Emilio Elizalde, Guido Cognola, Sergio Zerbini 

Publication date: 11 July 2000

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the framework leading to the multiplicative anomaly formula ---which is here proven to be valid even in cases of known spectrum but non-compact manifold (very important in Physics)--- zeta-function regularisation techniques are shown to be extremely efficient. Dirac like operators and harmonic oscillators are investigated in detail, in any number of space dimensions. They yield a non-zero anomaly which, on the other hand, can always be expressed by means of a simple analytical formula. These results are used in several physical examples, where the determinant of a product of differential operators is not equal to the product of the corresponding functional determinants. The simplicity of the Hamiltonian operators chosen is aimed at showing that such situation may be quite widespread in mathematical physics. However, the consequences of the existence of the determinant anomaly have often been overlooked.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9804118

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zbMATH Keywords

multiplicative anomalyDirac-like operatorsdeterminant anomalyharmonic osicllatorszeta-function regularisation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

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