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

来源：

GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATION | 2011年 / 43卷 / 08期

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.

引用

页码：2237 / 2255

页数：19

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