p -form spectra and Casimir energies on spherical tessellations

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/9/002MaRDI QIDQ5481010zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. S. Dowker

Publication date 7 August 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0510248

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

Abstract: Casimir energies on space-times having the fundamental domains of semi-regular spherical tesselations of the three-sphere as their spatial sections are computed for scalar and Maxwell fields. The spectral theory of p-forms on the fundamental domains is also developed and degeneracy generating functions computed. Absolute and relative boundary conditions are encountered naturally. Some aspects of the heat-kernel expansion are explored. The expansion is shown to terminate with the constant term which is computed to be 1/2 on all tesselations for a coexact 1-form and shown to be so by topological arguments. Some practical points concerning generalised Bernoulli numbers are given.

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