QFT over the finite line. Heat kernel coefficients, spectral zeta functions and selfadjoint extensions

DOI10.1007/S11005-015-0750-5zbMATH Open1325.81114arXiv1402.7176OpenAlexW3103144033MaRDI QIDQ490741FDOQ490741

Authors: Klaus Kirsten, M. Bordag, J. M. Muñoz-Castañeda 

Publication date: 28 August 2015

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

Abstract: Following the seminal works of Asorey-Ibort-Marmo and Mu~{n}oz-Casta~{n}eda-Asorey about selfadjoint extensions and quantum fields in bounded domains, we compute all the heat kernel coefficients for any strongly consistent selfadjoint extension of the Laplace operator over the finite line $[0,L]$. The derivative of the corresponding spectral zeta function at $s=0$ (partition function of the corresponding quantum field theory) is obtained. In order to compute the correct expression for the $a_{1/2}$ heat kernel coefficient, it is necessary to know in detail which non-negative selfadjoint extensions have zero modes and how many of them they have. The answer to this question leads us to analyse zeta function properties for the Von Neumann-Krein extension, the only extension with two zero modes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.7176

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zbMATH Keywords

scattering theoryCasimir effectquantum theoryboundary value problems for second-order elliptic equationsgeneral theory of linear operatorsparameter dependent boundary value problemsquantum field theory on curved space backgroundssymmetric and selfadjoint operatorszeta and \(L\)-functions: analytic theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Selberg zeta functions and regularized determinants; applications to spectral theory, Dirichlet series, Eisenstein series, etc. (explicit formulas) (11M36) Parameter dependent boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B08) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Linear symmetric and selfadjoint operators (unbounded) (47B25) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantum scattering theory (81U99) General quantum mechanics and problems of quantization (81S99) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

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