Heat kernel coefficients for Chern-Simons boundary conditions in QED

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/3/013MaRDI QIDQ4699897zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. V. Vassilevich, Emilio Elizalde

Publication date 18 November 1999

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9809211

zbMATH Keywords

heat kernel coefficientsChern-Simons boundary

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: We consider the four dimensional Euclidean Maxwell theory with a Chern-Simons term on the boundary. The corresponding gauge invariant boundary conditions become dependent on tangential derivatives. Taking the four-sphere as a particular example, we calculate explicitly a number of the first heat kernel coefficients and obtain the general formulas that yields any desired coefficient. A remarkable observation is that the coefficient $a_2$, which defines the one-loop counterterm and the conformal anomaly, does not depend on the Chern-Simons coupling constant, while the heat kernel itself becomes singular at a certain (critical) value of the coupling. This could be a reflection of a general property of Chern-Simons theories.

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