RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Soliton fermionic number from the heat kernel expansion A1 Alonso Izquierdo, Alberto A1 Fresneda, Rodrigo A1 Mateos Guilarte, Juan A1 Vassilevich, D. AB We consider different methods of calculating the (fractional) fermion number of solitons based on the heat kernel expansion. We derive a formula for the localized η function that provides a more systematic version of the derivative expansion for spectral asymmetry and compute the fermion number in amulti flavor extension of the Goldstone–Wilczek model. We also propose an improved expansion of the heatkernel that allows the tackling of the convergence issues and permits an automated computation of the coefficients. SN 1434-6044 YR 2019 FD 2019 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/40096 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/40096 LA eng NO Eur. Phys. J. C 79 (2019) 525. NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 23-nov-2024