Vacuum energy as spectral geometry

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2007.094MaRDI QIDQ2473498zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors S. A. Fulling

Publication date 27 February 2008

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.2831, https://eudml.org/doc/54405, http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/2007/094/

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zbMATH Keywords

spectral geometryvacuum energyquantum systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20)

Abstract: Quantum vacuum energy (Casimir energy) is reviewed for a mathematical audience as a topic in spectral theory. Then some one-dimensional systems are solved exactly, in terms of closed classical paths and periodic orbits. The relations among local spectral densities, energy densities, global eigenvalue densities, and total energies are demonstrated. This material provides background and motivation for the treatment of higher-dimensional systems (self-adjoint second-order partial differential operators) by semiclassical approximation and other methods.

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