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arxiv: hep-th/0504207 · v1 · submitted 2005-04-25 · ✦ hep-th · astro-ph· quant-ph

Casimir Energy for a Purely Dielectric Cylinder by the Mode Summation Method

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keywords energymethodcasimircylinderdielectricmodesummationcompute
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We use the mode summation method together with zeta-function regularization to compute the Casimir energy of a dilute dielectric cylinder. The method is very transparent, and sheds light on the reason the resulting energy vanishes.

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