Articulo
Evaluation of Casimir Energies Through Spectral Functions
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issn:0040-5779
issn:1573-9333
Autor
Santángelo, Eve Mariel
Institución
Resumen
We consider applications of elliptic differential operators and their associated spectral functions in quantum field theory problems. The role of zeta functions and traces of heat kernels in the regularization of Casimir energies is emphasized, and the renormalization procedure is discussed with simple examples. Traducción del artículo publicado en Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 131, No. 1, pp. 98-117 (Abril, 2002) Departamento de Física