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The Heat Kernel Expansion for the Electromagnetic Field in a Cavity

Authors :
Gian Michele Graf
D. Hasler
F. Bernasconi
Source :
Annales Henri Poincaré. 4:1001-1013
Publication Year :
2003
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2003.

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.<br />12 pages

Details

ISSN :
14240661 and 14240637
Volume :
4
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Annales Henri Poincaré
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....037ecbe563d6213a8714f5f0d05d6a99
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-003-0153-5