Heat trace asymptotics with transmittal boundary conditions and quantum brane world scenario

Jan, 2001
26 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 601 (2001) 125-148
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Abstract:
We study the spectral geometry of an operator of Laplace type on a manifold with a singular surface. We calculate several first coefficients of the heat kernel expansion. These coefficients are responsible for divergences and conformal anomaly in quantum brane-world scenario.
Note:
  • latex, 25 pp
  • 02.40.-k
  • 04.50.+h
  • 11.10.Kk
  • Heat equation
  • Brane-world scenario
  • field theory: Euclidean
  • path integral
  • effective action
  • perturbation theory: higher-order
  • regularization: heat kernel