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Regularisation of functional determinants using boundary perturbations

Condensed Matter 2009-10-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The formalism which has been developed to give general expressions for the determinants of differential operators is extended to the physically interesting situation where these operators have a zero mode which has been extracted. In the approach adopted here, this mode is removed by a novel regularisation procedure, which allows remarkably simple expressions for these determinants to be derived.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9509126,
  title  = {Regularisation of functional determinants using boundary perturbations},
  author = {A J McKane and M B Tarlie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9509126},
  year   = {2009}
}