Phys. Rev. D 70, 085003 (2004) [6 pages]Effective actions, boundaries, and precision calculations of Casimir energiesReceived 21 October 2003; published 4 October 2004 We perform the matching required to compute the leading effective boundary contribution to the QED Lagrangian in the presence of a conducting surface, once the electron is integrated out. Our result resolves a confusion in the literature concerning the interpretation of the leading such correction to the Casimir energy. It also provides a useful theoretical laboratory for brane-world calculations in which kinetic terms are generated on the brane, since a lot is known about QED near boundaries. © 2004 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.70.085003
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.085003
PACS:
12.20.Ds, 03.70.+k
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