On the ground state energy for a penetrable sphere and for a dielectric ball

Details On the ground state energy for a penetrable sphere and for a dielectric ball On the ground state energy for a penetrable sphere and for a dielectric ball

1998-11-02

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9811015v1

Phys.Rev.D59:085011,1999

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

18 pages, 1 figure, subm. to Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.59.085011

We analyse the ultraviolet divergencies in the ground state energy for a penetrable sphere and a dielectric ball. We argue that for massless fields subtraction of the ``empty space'' or the ``unbounded medium'' contribution is not enough to make the ground state energy finite whenever the heat kernel coefficient $a_2$ is not zero. It turns out that $a_2\ne 0$ for a penetrable sphere, a general dielectric background and the dielectric ball. To our surprise, for more singular configurations, as in the presence of sharp boundaries, the heat kernel coefficients behave to some extend better than in the corresponding smooth cases, making, for instance, the dilute dielectric ball a well defined problem.

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