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Robin conditions on the Euclidean ball

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-09-06 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Techniques are presented for calculating directly the scalar functional determinant on the Euclidean d-ball. General formulae are given for Dirichlet and Robin boundary conditions. The method involves a large mass asymptotic limit which is carried out in detail for d=2 and d=4 incidentally producing some specific summations and identities. Extensive use is made of the Watson-Kober summation formula.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9506042,
  title  = {Robin conditions on the Euclidean ball},
  author = {J. S. Dowker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9506042},
  year   = {2016}
}

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36p,JyTex, misprints corrected and a section on the massive case added

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