Scalar heat kernel with boundary in the worldline formalism

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/095MaRDI QIDQ440426zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fiorenzo Bastianelli, Olindo Corradini, P. A. G. Pisani, Christian Schubert

Publication date 18 August 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0652, http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/84238

zbMATH Keywords

heat kernelworldline formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15)

Abstract: The worldline formalism has in recent years emerged as a powerful tool for the computation of effective actions and heat kernels. However, implementing nontrivial boundary conditions in this formalism has turned out to be a difficult problem. Recently, such a generalization was developed for the case of a scalar field on the half-space R_+ x R^{D-1}, based on an extension of the associated worldline path integral to the full R^D using image charges. We present here an improved version of this formalism which allows us to write down non-recursive master formulas for the n-point contribution to the heat kernel trace of a scalar field on the half-space with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. These master formulas are suitable to computerization. We demonstrate the efficiency of the formalism by a calculation of two new heat-kernel coefficients for the half-space, a_4 and a_{9/2}.

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