Lack of strong ellipticity in Euclidean quantum gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/5/006zbMATH Open0937.83020arXivhep-th/9708163OpenAlexW3100668427WikidataQ57514662 ScholiaQ57514662MaRDI QIDQ4936792FDOQ4936792

Authors: Ivan G. Avramidi, Giampiero Esposito 

Publication date: 1 February 2000

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

Abstract: Recent work in Euclidean quantum gravity has studied boundary conditions which are completely invariant under infinitesimal diffeomorphisms on metric perturbations. On using the de Donder gauge-averaging functional, this scheme leads to both normal and tangential derivatives in the boundary conditions. In the present paper, it is proved that the corresponding boundary value problem fails to be strongly elliptic. The result raises deep interpretative issues for Euclidean quantum gravity on manifolds with boundary.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9708163

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zbMATH Keywords

manifolds with boundaryEuclidean quantum gravityde Donder gauge-averaging

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75)

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