Tunnel Determinants

Abstract

Methods for computing the regularized determinants of fluctuation operators are being developed. The results follow from the fact that these determinants can be expressed by eigenmodes of the fluctuation operator. As an application the tunnel determinants of some one- and higher-dimensional models are computed. It is shown that every fluctuation operator defines a supersymmetric quantum mechanical system.

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