Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2008-03-31
Phys.Rev.D78:065039,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
34 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.065039
The fluctuation determinant, the preexponential factor for the instanton transition, has been computed several years ago in the Abelian Higgs model, using a method based on integrating the Euclidean Green' function. A more elegant method for computing functional determinants, using the Gel'fand-Yaglom theorem, has been applied recently to a variety of systems. This method runs into difficulties if the background field has nontrivial topology, as is the case for the instanton in the Abelian Higgs model. A shift in thre effective centrifugal barriers makes the s-wave contribution infinite, an infinity that is compensated by the summation over the other partial waves. This requires some modifications of the Gel'fand-Yaglom method which are the main subject of this work. We present here both, the Green' s function and the Gel'fand-Yaglom method and compare the numerical results in detail.
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