Heat kernel expansion for semitransparent boundaries

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/32/47/304MaRDI QIDQ4947897zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. V. Vassilevich, M. Bordag

Publication date 25 April 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9907076

zbMATH Keywords

heat kernel coefficientsoperator of Laplace type\(\delta\)-function potentialsmall \(t\) asymptotics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat equation (35K05) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15)

Abstract: We study the heat kernel for an operator of Laplace type with a $delta$-function potential concentrated on a closed surface. We derive the general form of the small $t$ asymptotics and calculate explicitly several first heat kernel coefficients.

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