Zeta Function Regularization - Heat Kernel Regularization

Heat Kernel Regularization

The sum

is sometimes called a heat kernel or a heat-kernel regularized sum; this name stems from the idea that the can sometimes be understood as eigenvalues of the heat kernel. In mathematics, such a sum is known as a generalized Dirichlet series; its use for averaging is known as an Abelian mean. It is closely related to the Laplace–Stieltjes transform, in that

where is a step function, with steps of at . A number of theorems for the convergence of such a series exist. For example, by the Hardy-Littlewood Tauberian theorem, if

then the series for converges in the half-plane and is uniformly convergent on every compact subset of the half-plane . In almost all applications to physics, one has

Read more about this topic:  Zeta Function Regularization

Famous quotes containing the words heat and/or kernel:

    Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren’t turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
    —William Least Heat Moon [William Trogdon] (b. 1939)

    After night’s thunder far away had rolled
    The fiery day had a kernel sweet of cold
    Edward Thomas (1878–1917)