Zeta function regularization of path integrals in curved spacetime

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Publication:1258123


DOI10.1007/BF01626516zbMath0407.58024MaRDI QIDQ1258123

Stephen W. Hawking

Publication date: 1977

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)


83C99: General relativity

58D30: Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences

53C80: Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences


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