On the photon Green functions in curved spacetime

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/21/2/022zbMATH Open1067.81556arXivhep-th/0310049OpenAlexW1969390843WikidataQ57514609 ScholiaQ57514609MaRDI QIDQ4470712FDOQ4470712

Leopoldo Milano, Enrico Calloni, Giampiero Esposito, L. Rosa, Giuseppe Bimonte, Luciano Di Fiore

Publication date: 15 June 2004

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Quantization of electrodynamics in curved space-time in the Lorenz gauge and with arbitrary gauge parameter makes it necessary to study Green functions of non-minimal operators with variable coefficients. Starting from the integral representation of photon Green functions, we link them to the evaluation of integrals involving Gamma functions. Eventually, the full asymptotic expansion of the Feynman photon Green function at small values of the world function, as well as its explicit dependence on the gauge parameter, are obtained without adding by hand a mass term to the Faddeev--Popov Lagrangian. Coincidence limits of second covariant derivatives of the associated Hadamard function are also evaluated, as a first step towards the energy-momentum tensor in the non-minimal case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0310049

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

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