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