The Heat Kernel Expansion for the Electromagnetic Field in a Cavity |
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| Authors: | F Bernasconi G M Graf and D Hasler |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, ETH Zentrum, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland;(2) Theoretische Physik, ETH-Hönggerberg, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland;(3) Department of Mathematics, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| Abstract: | We derive the first six coefficients of the heat kernel expansion for the
electromagnetic field in a cavity by relating it to the expansion for the Laplace
operator acting on forms. As an application we verify that the electromagnetic
Casimir energy is finite.
Communicated by Vincent Rivasseau
submitted 17/02/03, accepted: 04/07/03 |
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