Magnetic fields and factored two-spheres

Abstract

A magnetic monopole is placed at the centre of a 3-ball whose surface, S, is tiled by the symmetry group, G, of a regular solid. The quantum mechanics on the two-dimensional quotient, S/G, is developed and the monopole charge is found to be quantized in the expected manner. The heat-kernels and zeta-functions are evaluated and the Casimir energies computed as examples of the formalism. Numerical approaches to the calculation of the derivative of the Barnes zeta-function are presented.