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In momentum space the Feynman propagator $D_{F}(k)$ at non-zero temperature is defined by a simple dispersion relation with the familiar property of being an even function of $k^{0}$ and analytic for Re$(k^{0})^{2}>0$. The coordinate space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 H. Arthur Weldon

We construct the heat kernel on curvilinear polygonal domains in arbitrary surfaces for Dirichlet, Neumann, and Robin boundary conditions as well as mixed problems, including those of Zaremba type. We compute the short time asymptotic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Medet Nursultanov , Julie Rowlett , David A. Sher

Atoms, molecules or excitonic quasiparticles, for which excitations are induced by external radiation fields and energy is dissipated through radiative decay, are examples of driven open quantum systems. We explain the use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-09 A. Alvermann , H. Fehske , P. B. Littlewood

Having in mind applications to gravitational wave theory (in connection with the radiation reaction problem), stochastic semiclassical gravity (in connection with the regularization of the noise kernel) and quantum field theory in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-30 Yves Décanini , Antoine Folacci

We give a short overview of the effective action approach in quantum field theory and quantum gravity and describe various methods for calculation of the asymptotic expansion of the heat kernel for second-order elliptic partial differential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ivan Avramidi

The usual (Bunch-Davies) Feynman propagator of a massless field is not well defined in an expanding universe due to the presence of infrared divergences. We propose a new propagator which yields infrared finite answers to any correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Jason Kumar , Louis Leblond , Arvind Rajaraman

We study the propagation of quantum fields on $\kappa$-Minkowsi spacetime. Starting from the non-commutative partition function for a free field written in momentum space we derive the Feynman propagator and analyze the non-trivial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Michele Arzano , Luca Tiberio Consoli

The Feynman propagator encodes all the physics contained in a free field and transforms as a covariant bi-scalar. Therefore, we should be able to discover the thermality of the Rindler horizon, just by probing the structure of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 T. Padmanabhan

Recently, we proposed a new method to calculate meson propagators in the large $N$ limit from twisted space-time reduced model. In this note, we give simulation details for obtaining meson spectra and discuss the smearing technique which…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-11-03 Antonio González-Arroyo , Masanori Okawa

We present a very quick and powerful method for the calculation of heat-kernel coefficients. It makes use of rather common ideas, as integral representations of the spectral sum, Mellin transforms, non-trivial commutation of series and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 M. Bordag , E. Elizalde , K. Kirsten

We argue that the conventional quantum field theory in curved spacetime has a grave drawback: The canonical commutation relations for quantum fields and conjugate momenta do not hold. Thus the conventional theory should be denounced and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir S. Mashkevich

In the high temperature, chirally invariant phase of QCD, the quark propagator is shown to have two sets of poles with different dispersion relations. A reflection property in momentum space relates all derivatives at zero-momentum of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Arthur Weldon

In Parts I and II we showed that e, $\nu$ propagators can be derived from rotation invariant projection operators, thereby providing examples of how quantities with spacetime symmetry can be obtained by constraining rotationally symmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard Shurtleff

We prove that the Schr\"odinger equation for N number of particles in the time dependent electro-magnetic field generates a unique unitary propagator on the state space under the condition that the field is smooth and moderately but almost…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-03 Kenji Yajima

We extend the recently proposed Time-Dependent Multi-Determinant approach (ref.[1]) to the description of fermionic propagators. The method hinges on equations of motions obtained using variational principles of Dirac type. In particular we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-03 Giovanni Puddu

We compute the first four heat-kernel coefficients required for the renormalization of Linearized Massive Gravity. We focus on the Fierz-Pauli theory in a curved spacetime, describing the propagation of a massive spin $2$ field in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-17 Leonardo Farolfi , Filippo Fecit

We derive the propagator for a massive vector field on a de Sitter background of arbitrary dimension. This propagator is de Sitter invariant and possesses the proper flat spacetime and massless limits. Moreover, the retarded Green's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

We first construct generalized Riemann-normal coordinates by using autoparallels, instead of geodesics, in an arbitrary Riemann-Cartan spacetime. With the aid of generalized Riemann-normal coordinates and their associated orthonormal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Yu-Huei Wu , Chih-Hung Wang

Using a ``wall'' of quark point sources, we invert the chirally improved Dirac operator to create an ``incoherent'' collection of quark propagators which originate from all spatial points of the source time slice. The lowest-order NRQCD…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 Tommy Burch , Christof Gattringer , Andreas Schäfer

We develop a theory of Feynman propagators for the massive Klein--Gordon equation with asymptotically static perturbations. Building on our previous work on the causal propagators, we employ a framework based on propagation of singularities…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Dean Baskin , Moritz Doll , Jesse Gell-Redman