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Heat kernel: Proper-time method, Fock–Schwinger gauge, path integral, and Wilson line
A. V. Ivanova, N. V. Kharukb a St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
b St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg, Russia
Abstract:
This paper is devoted to the proper-time method and describes a model case that reflects the subtleties of constructing the heat kernel, is easily extended to more general cases (curved space, manifold with a boundary), and contains two interrelated parts: an asymptotic expansion and a path integral representation. We discuss the significance of gauge conditions and the role of ordered exponentials in detail, derive a new nonrecursive formula for the Seeley–DeWitt coefficients on the diagonal, and show the equivalence of two main approaches using the exponential formula.
Keywords:
path integral, Wilson line, ordered exponential, Fock–Schwinger gauge, Laplace operator, heat kernel, Seeley–DeWitt coefficient, proper time method.
Received: 20.04.2020 Revised: 20.04.2020
Citation:
A. V. Ivanov, N. V. Kharuk, “Heat kernel: Proper-time method, Fock–Schwinger gauge, path integral, and Wilson line”, TMF, 205:2 (2020), 242–261; Theoret. and Math. Phys., 205:2 (2020), 1456–1472
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https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/tmf9923https://doi.org/10.4213/tmf9923 https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/tmf/v205/i2/p242
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