Vacuum energy of a massive scalar field in the presence of a semi-transparent cylinder

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/33/32/308zbMATH Open1009.81521arXivhep-th/0004051OpenAlexW3102699751MaRDI QIDQ4520645FDOQ4520645

Authors: Marco Scandurra 

Publication date: 13 December 2000

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

Abstract: We compute the ground state energy of a massive scalar field in the background of a cylindrical shell whose potential is given by a delta function. The zero point energy is expressed in terms of the Jost function of the related scattering problem, the renormalization is performed with the help of the heat kernel expansion. The energy is found to be negative for attractive and for repulsive backgrounds as well.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0004051

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zbMATH Keywords

Jost function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08)

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