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Local zeta regularization and the scalar Casimir effect III. The case with a background harmonic potential

Mathematical Physics 2016-02-09 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

Applying the general framework for local zeta regularization proposed in Part I of this series of papers, we renormalize the vacuum expectation value of the stress-energy tensor (and of the total energy) for a scalar field in presence of an external harmonic potential.

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@article{arxiv.1505.01651,
  title  = {Local zeta regularization and the scalar Casimir effect III. The case with a background harmonic potential},
  author = {Davide Fermi and Livio Pizzocchero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.01651},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Some overlaps with our works arXiv:1104.4330, arXiv:1505.00711, arXiv:1505.01044, arXiv:1505.03276. These overlaps aim to make the present paper self-contained, and do not involve the main results