1-loop effective action on the 4-ball

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/5/013zbMATH Open0848.58056arXivhep-th/9601006OpenAlexW3099852289WikidataQ57514674 ScholiaQ57514674MaRDI QIDQ4881534FDOQ4881534

Authors: Giampiero Esposito, Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik, G. Pollifrone 

Publication date: 2 June 1998

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

Abstract: This paper applies $zeta$-function regularization to evaluate the 1-loop effective action for scalar field theories and Euclidean Maxwell theory in the presence of boundaries. After a comparison of two techniques developed in the recent literature, vacuum Maxwell theory is studied and the contribution of all perturbative modes to $zet{a}^{\prime }(0)$ is derived: transverse, longitudinal and normal modes of the electromagnetic potential, jointly with ghost modes. The analysis is performed on imposing magnetic boundary conditions, when the Faddeev-Popov Euclidean action contains the particular gauge-averaging term which leads to a complete decoupling of all perturbative modes. It is shown that there is no cancellation of the contributions to $zet{a}^{\prime }(0)$ resulting from longitudinal, normal and ghost modes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9601006

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zbMATH Keywords

\(\zeta\)-function regularization1-loop effective actionEuclidean Maxwell theoryscalar field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

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