Modular invariance in finite temperature Casimir effect

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2020)134zbMATH Open1456.81348arXiv2007.13334MaRDI QIDQ2657785FDOQ2657785

Authors: Francesco Alessio, Glenn Barnich 

Publication date: 14 March 2021

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

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.

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

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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)

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