Green's functions and Hadamard parametrices for vector and tensor fields in general linear covariant gauges
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Publication:6289655
DOI10.1103/PHYSREVD.97.025022arXiv1708.00444MaRDI QIDQ6289655FDOQ6289655
Authors: Markus B. Fröb, Mojtaba Taslimi Tehrani 
Publication date: 1 August 2017
Abstract: We determine the retarded and advanced Green's functions and Hadamard parametrices in curved spacetimes for linearized massive and massless gauge bosons and linearized Einstein gravity with a cosmological constant in general linear covariant gauges. These vector and tensor parametrices contain additional singular terms compared with their Feynman/de Donder-gauge counterpart. We also give explicit recursion relations for the Hadamard coefficients, and indicate their generalization to dimensions. Furthermore, we express the divergence and trace of the vector and tensor Green's functions in terms of derivatives of scalar and vector Green's functions, and show how these relations appear as Ward identities in the free quantum theory.
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