Modular invariance in finite temperature Casimir effect

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2020)134MaRDI QIDQ2657785zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Francesco Alessio, Glenn Barnich

Publication date 14 March 2021

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13334

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryduality in gauge field theoriesdiscrete symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

Abstract: The temperature inversion symmetry of the partition function of the electromagnetic field in the set-up of the Casimir effect is extended to full modular transformations by turning on a purely imaginary chemical potential for adapted spin angular momentum. The extended partition function is expressed in terms of a real analytic Eisenstein series. These results become transparent after explicitly showing equivalence of the partition functions for Maxwell's theory between perfectly conducting parallel plates and for a massless scalar with periodic boundary conditions.

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