Functional determinants from Wronski Green functions

DOI10.1063/1.533069zbMATH Open0963.34075arXivphysics/9712048OpenAlexW2082105929MaRDI QIDQ4498487FDOQ4498487

Authors: Hagen Kleinert, A. Chervyakov 

Publication date: 16 August 2000

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A general technique is developed for calculating functional determinants of second-order differential operators with Dirichlet, periodic, and antiperiodic boundary conditions. As an example, we give simple formulas for a harmonic oscillator with an arbitrary time-dependent frequency. Here our result is a generalization of Gel'fand-Yaglom's famous formula which was restricted to Dirichlet boundary conditions. Apart from the generalization, our derivation is more transparent than theirs, the determinants requiring only knowledge of the classical trajectories. Special properties of operators with a zero mode are exhibited. Our technique does not require the calculation of the spectrum and is as simple as Wronski's method for Green functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9712048

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zbMATH Keywords

functional determinantperiodic- and anti-periodic boundary condition and zero modesemi-classical fluctuationsWronski Green function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Green's functions for ordinary differential equations (34B27) Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40)

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