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Schwinger's method for the massive Casimir effect

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We apply a method recently proposed by Schwinger to the massive scalar field to calculate the Casimir effect. The method is applied with two different regularization schemes: Schwinger's original one by means of Poisson formula and another one by means of analytical continuation.

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  1. Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21945-970, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    M. V. Cougo-Pinto & C. Farina

  2. Departamento de Fisica Teorica, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain

    A. J. Seguí-Santonja

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Cougo-Pinto, M.V., Farina, C. & Seguí-Santonja, A.J. Schwinger's method for the massive Casimir effect. Lett Math Phys 31, 309–313 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00762794

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