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A Computation of the Casimir Energy on a Parallelepiped

O. Omenyi, Louis

Asian Research Journal of Mathematics · pp. 1–14 · Published 31 May 2017

10.9734/ARJOM/2017/33689

Abstract

The original computations deriving the Casimir energy and force consists of first taking limits of the spectral zeta function and afterwards analytically extending the result. This process of computation presents a weakness in Hendrik Casimir’s original argument since limit and analytic continuation do not commute. A case of the Laplacian on a parallelepiped box representing the space as the vacuum between two plates modelled with Dirichlet and periodic Neumann boundary conditions is constructed to address this anomaly. It involves the derivation of the regularised zeta function in terms of the Riemann zeta function on the parallelepiped. The values of the Casimir energy and Casimir force obtained from our derivation agree with those of Hendrik Casimir.

Laplacian zeta function Casimir energy parallelepiped analytic continuation

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