Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1992-06-26
Nucl.Phys. B394 (1993) 728-790
Physics
Condensed Matter
50 pages, DAMTP/92-31
Scientific paper
10.1016/0550-3213(93)90229-I
A framework allowing for perturbative calculations to be carried out for quantum field theories with arbitrary smoothly curved boundaries is described. It is based on an expansion of the heat kernel derived earlier for arbitrary mixed Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. The method is applied to a general renormalisable scalar field theory in four dimensions using dimensional regularisation to two loops and expanding about arbitrary background fields. Detailed results are also specialised to an $O(n)$ symmetric model with a single coupling constant. Extra boundary terms are introduced into the action which give rise to either Dirichlet or generalised Neumann boundary conditions for the quantum fields. For plane boundaries the resulting renormalisation group functions are in accord with earlier results but here the additional terms depending on the extrinsic curvature of the boundary are found. Various consistency relations are also checked and the implications of conformal invariance at the critical point where the $\beta$ function vanishes are also derived. The local Scr\"odinger equation for the wave functional defined by the functional integral under deformations of the boundary is also verified to two loops. Its consistency with the renormalisation group to all orders in perturbation theory is discussed.
McAvity David M.
Osborn Herbert
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