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The Green-function technique, termed the irreducible Green functions (IGF) method, that is a certain reformulation of the equation-of motion method for double-time temperature dependent Green functions is presented. This method was…
In this paper it is shown how the generating functional for Green's functions in relativistic quantum field theory and in thermal field theory can be evaluated in terms of a standard quantum mechanical path integral. With this calculational…
In ApJ (1974), Will solved the perturbation of a Schwarzschild black hole due to a slowly rotating light concentric thin ring, using Green's functions expressed as infinite-sum expansions in multipoles and in the small mass and rotational…
Several widely used methods for the calculation of band structures and photo emission spectra, such as the GW approximation, rely on Many-Body Perturbation Theory. They can be obtained by iterating a set of functional differential equations…
The Green's function method has applications in several fields in Physics, from classical differential equations to quantum many-body problems. In the quantum context, Green's functions are correlation functions, from which it is possible…
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 present a calculation of the full retarded Green functions of the Regge-Wheeler and Teukolsky equations obeyed by gravitational field perturbations of Schwarzschild spacetime. We perform the calculations for spacetime points along: (i) a…
Using a recently developed approach for solving the three dimensional Dirac equation with spherical symmetry, we obtain simple representations for the Green's function of the Dirac-Oscillator and Dirac-Coulomb problems. This is accomplished…
We derive the gravitational waveform and gravitational-wave energy flux generated by a binary star system of compact objects (neutron stars or black holes), accurate through second post-Newtonian order ($O[(v/c)^4] \sim O[(Gm/rc^2)^2]$)…
We construct Green's functions for divergence form, second order parabolic systems in non-smooth time-varying domains whose boundaries are locally represented as graph of functions that are Lipschitz continuous in the spatial variables and…
We present a high order numerical method for the solution of the Neumann Green's function in two dimensions. For a general closed planar curve, our computational method resolves both the interior and exterior Green's functions with the…
We present a new method for reconstructing the cosmological density, peculiar velocity and peculiar gravitational potential on large scales from redshift data. We remove the distorting effects of line-of-sight peculiar motions by using the…
It has been shown that the Schwinger-Dyson equations for non-Hermitian theories implicitly include the Hilbert-space metric. Approximate Green functions for such theories may thus be obtained, without having to evaluate the metric…
The magnon Hedin's equations are derived via the Schwinger functional derivative technique, and the resulting self-consistent Green's function method is used to calculate ground state spin patterns and magnetic structure factors for…
A new approach proposed recently by author for the calculation of Green functions in quantum field theory and quantum mechanics is briefly reviewed. The method is applied to nonperturbative calculations for anharmonic oscillator,…
A method for solving Schwinger-Dyson equations for the Green function generating functional of non-Abelian gauge theory is proposed. The method is based on an approximation of Schwinger-Dyson equations by exactly soluble equations. For the…
Homogeneous and inhomogeneous biharmonic equation are considered on the $n$-dimensional unit sphere. The Green function is given as a series of Gegenbauer polynomials. In the paper, explicit representations of the Green function are found…
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…
We construct a position-space cosmological perturbation theory around spatially flat Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker geometries that allows to model localized primordial sources of gravitational waves. The equations of motion are…
The Green function has a complex dependence upon its underlying domain and differential operator. We briefly review Hadamard's formula for the first variation of the Green function due to a perturbation of the domain. We then take a…