Heat kernel coefficients for Chern-Simons boundary conditions in QED

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/3/013zbMATH Open0939.58029arXivhep-th/9809211OpenAlexW3098233144MaRDI QIDQ4699897FDOQ4699897

Authors: D. V. Vassilevich, Emilio Elizalde 

Publication date: 18 November 1999

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

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.

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

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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)

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