Vector fields on a disk with mixed boundary conditions

DOI10.1063/1.531021zbMATH Open0845.58048arXivgr-qc/9404052OpenAlexW3104890668MaRDI QIDQ4873338FDOQ4873338

D. V. Vassilevich

Publication date: 16 April 1996

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

Abstract: We study vector fields on a disk satisfying two types of mixed boundary conditions. These boundary conditions are selected by BRST-invariance in electrodynamics. They also appear in the de Rham complex. The manifest construction of the harmonic expansion is presented. The eigenfunctions of the vector Laplace operator are expressed in terms of fields satisfying pure Dirichlet or Robin boundary conditions. For the case of four-dimensional disk several first coefficients of the heat kernel expansion are computed. An error in the analitical expression by Branson and Gilkey is corrected.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9404052

zbMATH Keywords

boundary conditionselectrodynamicsBRST-invariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems on manifolds (58J32) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90)

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