The gravitational path integral and the trace of the diffeomorphisms

被引:2
作者
Dasgupta, Arundhati [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Lethbridge, Dept Phys & Astron, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4, Canada
关键词
Path-integral; Quantum gravity; Heat kernel; QUANTUM-GRAVITY;
D O I
10.1007/s10714-011-1179-5
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
I give a resolution of the conformal mode divergence in the Euclidean gravitational path-integral by isolating the trace of the diffeomorphisms and its contribution to the Faddeev-Popov measure.
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页码:2237 / 2255
页数:19
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