Vacuum charge and the eta function

DOI10.1007/BF01212294MaRDI QIDQ1058217zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors John Lott

Publication date 1984

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01212294

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic self-adjoint pseudo-differential operatorsecond quantized spinor fieldvacuum charge

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Pseudodifferential and Fourier integral operators on manifolds (58J40)

Review text

The vacuum charge of a second quantized spinor field in a static classical background field on a static space-time is studied with the help of the eta-function \(\eta_ H(s)=\sum \lambda_ i| \lambda_ i|^{-s-1}\) of an elliptic self-adjoint pseudo-differential operator H (the sum is over its nonzero eigenvalues).

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