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A.P. Balachandran: Living in Physics
V. P. Nair
A.P. Balachandran was a theoretical physicist of extraordinary versatility and originality. In a career spanning over six decades, he made many significant contributions to quantum…
hep-th2025
On Casimir effect in Yang-Mills theories in three and four dimensions
Dimitra Karabali, Antonina Maj, V. P. Nair
We calculate the Casimir energy for the configuration of two parallel plates coupled to nonabelian gauge fields with a Yang-Mills action. We consider both 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions in…