Gluing Formula for Casimir Energies
We provide a completely new perspective for the analysis of Casimir forces in very general piston configurations. To this end, in order to be self-contained, we prove a “gluing formula” well known in mathematics and relate it with Casimir forces in piston configurations. At the center of our descrip...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2018-01-01
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Series: | Symmetry |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/10/1/31 |
Summary: | We provide a completely new perspective for the analysis of Casimir forces in very general piston configurations. To this end, in order to be self-contained, we prove a “gluing formula” well known in mathematics and relate it with Casimir forces in piston configurations. At the center of our description is the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator, which encodes all the information about those forces. As an application, the results for previously considered piston configurations are reproduced in a streamlined fashion. |
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ISSN: | 2073-8994 |