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Multiple Mellin-Barnes integrals in Schwinger-DeWitt technique

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-04-27 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider off-diagonal asymptotic series for integral kernels of functions of Laplace-type operators on curved backgrounds. These expansions are obtained by applying integral transforms to the DeWitt series for the heat kernel of the corresponding operator and thus represent a DeWitt-type series in the heat kernel coefficients with the coefficients of this expansion (which we call basis kernels) being some hypergeometric-type functions of the Synge world function. Basis kernels of a certain class of operator functions were found previously in terms of NN-fold Mellin-Barnes integrals. In this paper we study series representations of the corresponding Mellin-Barnes integrals in both non-resonant and resonant cases and suggest a physical interpretation for the emerging series, which is related to the UV and IR properties of operator functions.

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@article{arxiv.2604.22299,
  title  = {Multiple Mellin-Barnes integrals in Schwinger-DeWitt technique},
  author = {A. O. Barvinsky and A. E. Kalugin and W. Wachowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.22299},
  year   = {2026}
}

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26 pages, 5 figures

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