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Dirichlet Scalar Determinants On Two-Dimensional Constant Curvature Disks

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-05-09 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We compute the scalar determinants det(Δ+M2)\det(\Delta+M^{2}) on the two-dimensional round disks of constant curvature R=0R=0, 2\mp 2, for any finite boundary length \ell and mass MM, with Dirichlet boundary conditions, using the ζ\zeta-function prescription. When M2=±q(q+1)M^{2}=\pm q(q+1), qNq\in\mathbb N, a simple expression involving only elementary functions and the Euler Γ\Gamma function is found. Applications to two-dimensional Liouville and Jackiw-Teitelboim quantum gravity are presented in a separate paper.

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@article{arxiv.2405.14958,
  title  = {Dirichlet Scalar Determinants On Two-Dimensional Constant Curvature Disks},
  author = {Soumyadeep Chaudhuri and Frank Ferrari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.14958},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

40 pages; minor changes have been made in the abstract and the introduction, a subsection has been added with the exact computation of the determinant on a hemisphere, version matches with the one to be published