Functional Determinants for Radially Separable Partial Differential Operators

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  • G. V. Dunne

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14311/916

Keywords:

quantum field theory, functional determinants, zeta functions, spectral theory, partial differential operators

Abstract

Functional determinants of differential operators play a prominent role in many fields of theoretical and mathematical physics, ranging from condensed matter physics, to atomic, molecular and particle physics. They are, however, difficult to compute reliably in non-trivial cases. In one dimensional problems (i.e. functional determinants of ordinary differential operators), a classic result of Gel’fand and Yaglom greatly simplifies the computation of functional determinants. Here I report some recent progress in extending this approach to higher dimensions (i.e., functional determinants of partial differential operators), with applications in quantum field theory. 

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  • G. V. Dunne

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Published

2007-01-02

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How to Cite

Dunne, G. V. (2007). Functional Determinants for Radially Separable Partial Differential Operators. Acta Polytechnica, 47(2-3). https://doi.org/10.14311/916