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hep-th2000
Divergences in the Casimir energy
J. S. Dowker
The divergence found by Nesterenko, Lambiase and Scarpetta in the Casimir energy on a semi-circular cylinder is attributed to the existence of edges.
hep-th1998
On the relevance of the multiplicative anomaly
J. S. Dowker
We shed doubt on a commonly used manipulation in computing the partition function for a matrix valued operator together with its attendant invocation of the multiplicative anomaly.
hep-th1995
Oddball determinants
J. S. Dowker
A simplified direct method is described for obtaining massless scalar functional determinants on the Euclidean ball. The case of odd dimensions is explicitly discussed.