Gelfand-Yaglom formula for functional determinants in higher dimensions

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AAE8A7MaRDI QIDQ4629617zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Ossipov

Publication date 27 March 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02807

zbMATH Keywords

determinant of Laplace operatorfunctional determinantsGelfand-Yaglom formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems, existence, uniqueness, continuous dependence and continuation of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34A12) Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Functional calculus for linear operators (47A60)

Abstract: The Gelfand-Yaglom formula relates functional determinants of the one-dimensional second order differential operators to the solutions of the corresponding initial value problem. In this work we generalise the Gelfand-Yaglom method by considering discrete and continuum partial second order differential operators in higher dimensions. To illustrate our main result we apply the generalised formula to the two-dimensional massive and massless discrete Laplace operators and calculate asymptotic expressions for their determinants.

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