High-temperature expansion of the free energy of a massive scalar field in a curved space
- 15 November 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 38 (10) , 3327-3329
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.38.3327
Abstract
The high-temperature expansion of the free energy of a free, massive scalar field propagating in a static space-time is derived in terms of the Minakshisundaram coefficients. The method is an extension of a conformal transformation technique using ζ functions.Keywords
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