The Maxwell-Einstein system, Ward identities and the Vilkovisky construction

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2011.12.010MaRDI QIDQ412151zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors N. K. Nielsen

Publication date 4 May 2012

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.2699

zbMATH Keywords

quantum field in curved space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: The gauge fixing dependence of the one-loop effective action of quantum gravity in the proper-time representation is investigated for a space of arbitrary curvature, and the investigation is extended to Maxwell-Einstein theory. The construction of Vilkovisky and DeWitt for removal of this depence is then considered in general gauges, and it is shown that nontrivial criteria arising from a Ward identity of the theory must be obeyed by the regularization scheme, if the construction is to remove the gauge dependence of quadratic and quartic divergences. The results apply also to non-Abelian gauge theories; they are used to address the question of gauge dependence of asymptotic freedom arising through internal graviton lines at one-loop order as suggested by Robinson and Wilczek.

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