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Electromagnetic and gravitational radiation do not propagate solely on the null cone in a generic curved spacetime. They develop "tails," traveling at all speeds equal to and less than unity. If sizeable, this off-the-null-cone effect could…
The local momentum space expansion for the real vector field is considered. Using Riemann normal coordinates we obtain an expansion of the Feynman Green function up and including terms that are quadratic in the curvature. The results are…
We consider a scalar charge travelling in a curved background spacetime. We calculate the quasi-local contribution to the scalar self-force experienced by such a particle following a geodesic in a general spacetime. We also show that if we…
This introduction to Green's functions is based on their role as kernels of differential equations. The procedures to construct solutions to a differential equation with an external source or with an inhomogeneity term are put together to…
We extend our previous calculation of the quasi-local contribution to the self-force on a scalar particle to general (not necessarily geodesic) motion in a general spacetime. In addition to the general case and the case of a particle at…
We have developed an approach to calculate the single-particle Green function of a one-dimensional many-body system in the strongly localized limit at zero temperature. Our approach, based on the locator expansion, sums the contributions of…
The pointwise space-time behaviors of the Green's function and the global solution to the modified Vlasov- Poisson-Boltzmann (mVPB) system in one-dimensional space are studied in this paper. It is shown that, the Green's function admits the…
We establish a local Harnack inequality in a neighborhood of an indecomposable singular point of a stationary integral varifold. Extending the method of Gr\"uter and Widman \cite{gruter1982green}, we construct the Green function on a…
We explicitly calculate the Green functions describing quantum changes of topology in Friedman-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker Universes whose spacelike sections are compact but endowed with distinct topologies. The calculations are performed…
In this paper we investigate the motion of small compact objects in non-vacuum spacetimes using methods from effective field theory in curved spacetime. Although a vacuum formulation is sufficient in many astrophysical contexts, there are…
Quantum transport of strongly correlated fermions is of central interest in condensed matter physics. Here, we present first-principle nonequilibrium Green functions results using $T$-matrix selfenergies for finite Hubbard clusters of…
We demonstrate how to explicitly calculate the QED path integral and associated Green functions, exactly, in curved spacetime, with retention of the boundary terms, to infinite order, for any and all spacetime manifolds with sufficient…
We study a system of two non-interacting quantum wires with fermions of opposite chirality with a point contact junction at the origin across which tunneling can take place when an arbitrary time-dependent bias between the wires is applied.…
The pointwise space-time behaviors of the Green's function and the global solution to the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck (VPFP) system in spatial three dimension are studied in this paper. It is shown that the Green's function consists of the…
In Cartesian coordinate system, the fields generated by a point charge moving parallel to the axis of a rectangular vacuum chamber can be formulated in terms of eigenfunctions of the rectangular waveguide using the mode expansion method. In…
We calculate the local Green function for a quantum-mechanical particle with hopping between nearest and next-nearest neighbors on the Bethe lattice, where the on-site energies may alternate on sublattices. For infinite connectivity the…
We study the Neumann Green's function for second order parabolic systems in divergence form with time-dependent measurable coefficients in a cylindrical domain $\mathcal{Q}=\Omega\times (-\infty,\infty)$, where $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$…
A method for deriving quantum kinetic equations with initial correlations is developed on the basis of the nonequilibrium Green's function formalism. The method is applicable to a wide range of correlated initial states described by…
We study low-energy expansion and high-energy expansion of reflection coefficients for one-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation, from which expansions of the Green function can be obtained. Making use of the equivalent Fokker-Planck equation,…
We construct the Green functions (or Feynman's propagators) for the Schroedinger equations of the form $i\psi_{t}+{1/4}\psi_{xx}\pm tx^{2}\psi =0$ in terms of Airy functions and solve the Cauchy initial value problem in the coordinate and…