HeatK: A Mathematica Program for Computing Heat Kernel Coefficients
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Heat kernel coefficients encode the short distance behavior of propagators in the presence of background fields, and are thus useful in quantum field theory. We present a Mathematica program for computing these coefficients and their derivatives, based on an algorithm by Avramidi.[1] ∗Electronic Address: [email protected] 0 I. PROGRAM SUMMARY Title of program: HeatK Version number: 1.0 Available at: http://fermi.pha.jhu.edu/~booth/HeatK/ Programming Language: Mathematica 2.2 or higher Platform: Any platform supporting Mathematica 2.2
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