Effective actions, boundaries, and precision calculations of Casimir energies

@article{Aghababaie2004EffectiveAB,
  title={Effective actions, boundaries, and precision calculations of Casimir energies},
  author={Y. Aghababaie and Cliff P. Burgess},
  journal={Physical Review D},
  year={2004},
  volume={70},
  pages={085003}
}
We perform the matching required to compute the leading effective boundary contribution to the QED Lagrangian in the presence of a conducting surface, once the electron is integrated out. Our result resolves a confusion in the literature concerning the interpretation of the leading such correction to the Casimir energy. It also provides a useful theoretical laboratory for brane-world calculations in which kinetic terms are generated on the brane, since a lot is known about QED near boundaries. 
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