Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1998-02-09
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
24 pages, Latex. The new version is more detailed and much longer
Scientific paper
Since the Maxwell theory of electromagnetic phenomena is a gauge theory, it is quite important to evaluate the zero-point energy of the quantized electromagnetic field by a careful assignment of boundary conditions on the potential and on the ghost fields. Recent work by the authors has shown that, for a perfectly conducting spherical shell, it is precisely the contribution of longitudinal and normal modes of the potential which enables one to reproduce the result first due to Boyer. This is obtained provided that one works with the Lorenz gauge-averaging functional, and with the help of the Feynman choice for a dimensionless gauge parameter. For arbitrary values of the gauge parameter, however, covariant and non-covariant gauges lead to an entangled system of three eigenvalue equations. Such a problem is crucial both for the foundations and for the applications of quantum field theory.
Esposito Giampiero
Kamenshchik Alexander Yu.
Kirsten Klaus
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