Local zeta regularization and the Casimir effect

DOI10.1143/PTP.126.419zbMATH Open1242.81122arXiv1104.4330MaRDI QIDQ2889944FDOQ2889944

Authors: Davide Fermi, Livio Pizzocchero 

Publication date: 8 June 2012

Published in: Progress of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, whose aims are mainly pedagogical, we illustrate how to use the local zeta regularization to compute the stress-energy tensor of the Casimir effect. Our attention is devoted to the case of a neutral, massless scalar field in flat space-time, on a space domain with suitable (e.g., Dirichlet) boundary conditions. After a simple outline of the local zeta method, we exemplify it in the typical case of a field between two parallel plates, or outside them. The results are shown to agree with the ones obtained by more popular methods, such as point splitting regularization. In comparison with these alternative methods, local zeta regularization has the advantage to give directly finite results via analitic continuation, with no need to remove or subtract divergent quantities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.4330

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

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