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HeatK: A Mathematica Program for Computing Heat Kernel Coefficients

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v3

Abstract

Heat kernel coefficients encode the short distance behavior of propagators in the presence of background fields, and are thus useful in quantum field theory. We present a Mathematica program for computing these coefficients and their derivatives, based on an algorithm by Avramidi\cite{Avramidi:npb91}. See http://fermi.pha.jhu.edu/~booth/HeatK/ for source and examples.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9803113,
  title  = {HeatK: A Mathematica Program for Computing Heat Kernel Coefficients},
  author = {Michael J. Booth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9803113},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

latex, 9 pages, no figures. Expanded example section