Boundary operators in Euclidean quantum gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/9/004MaRDI QIDQ4894736zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ivan G. Avramidi, Giampiero Esposito, Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik

Publication date 11 February 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9603021

zbMATH Keywords

boundary operatorEuclidean quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

Abstract: Gauge-invariant boundary conditions in Euclidean quantum gravity can be obtained by setting to zero at the boundary the spatial components of metric perturbations, and a suitable class of gauge-averaging functionals. This paper shows that, on choosing the de Donder functional, the resulting boundary operator involves projection operators jointly with a nilpotent operator. Moreover, the elliptic operator acting on metric perturbations is symmetric. Other choices of mixed boundary conditions, for which the normal components of metric perturbations can be set to zero at the boundary, are then analyzed in detail. Last, the evaluation of the 1-loop divergence in the axial gauge for gravity is obtained. Interestingly, such a divergence turns out to coincide with the one resulting from transverse-traceless perturbations.

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