Relativistic Green functions in a plane-wave gravitational background

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/40/30/032zbMATH Open1120.81031arXivhep-th/0701105OpenAlexW3106063329MaRDI QIDQ5757579FDOQ5757579

Authors: Arvind Narayan Vaidya, C. Farina, M. S. Guimarães, M. J. Nieves 

Publication date: 7 September 2007

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a massive relativistic particle in the background of a gravitational plane wave. The corresponding Green functions for both spinless and spin 1/2 cases, previously computed by A. Barducci and R. Giachetti cite{Barducci3}, are reobtained here by alternative methods, as for example, the Fock-Schwinger proper-time method and the algebraic method. In analogy to the electromagnetic case, we show that for a gravitational plane wave background a semiclassical approach is also sufficient to provide the exact result, though the lagrangian involved is far from being a quadratic one.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0701105

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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