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We use thermal effective field theory to derive that the coefficient of the first subleading piece of the thermal free energy, $c_1$, is equal to the coefficient of the subleading piece of the Casimir energy on $S^1 \times S^{d-2}$ for $d…
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We recently proposed a new approach to the Casimir effect based on classical ray optics (the "optical approximation"). In this paper we show how to use it to calculate the local observables of the field theory. In particular we study the…
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