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

August Romeo, Kimball A. Milton

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0504207

Abstract

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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