Asymptotic analysis of determinant of discrete Laplacian

DOI10.1007/S11005-019-01208-5MaRDI QIDQ2300918zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yuhang Hou, Santosh Kandel

Publication date 28 February 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02887

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansiondiscrete Laplacianheat kernellattice field theorypartition functionzeta-regularized determinant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of graph theory (05C90) Sturm-Liouville theory (34B24) Boundary value problems on manifolds (58J32) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Perturbations of PDEs on manifolds; asymptotics (58J37) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

Abstract: In this paper, we study the relation between the partition function of the free scalar field theory on hypercubes with boundary conditions and asymptotics of discrete partition functions on a sequence of "lattices" which approximate the hypercube as the mesh approaches to zero. More precisely, we show that the logarithm of the zeta regularized determinant of Laplacian on the hypercube with Dirichlet boundary condition appears as the constant term in the asymptotic expansion of the log-determinant of the discrete Laplacian up to an explicitly computable constant. We also investigate similar problems for the massive Laplacian on tori.

Review text

The authors show that the logarithm of the zeta-regularized determinant of the Laplacian on the hypercube with the Dirichlet boundary condition appears as the constant term in the asymptotic expansion of the log determinant of the discrete Laplacian up to an explicitly computable constant. They also investigate similar problems for the massive Lalacian on tori.

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