Covariant Effective Action for Antisymmetric Tensor Field
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2018-06-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Covariant quantization of rank-2 antisymmetric fields is non-trivial due to additional symmetries of the gauge parameters. We present an intuitive way to deal with this additional symmetry of gauge parameters in terms of geometrical understanding of field space. We generalize the DeWitt-Vilkovisky covariant effective action formalism for quantization of such theories. As an application, we quantize a massive rank-2 antisymmetric field using the covariant effective action approach and reproduce previously obtained results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1803.10157,
title = {Covariant Effective Action for Antisymmetric Tensor Field},
author = {Sandeep Aashish and Sukanta Panda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.10157},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
7 pages, 1 figure, prd format; text improved, typos corrected, references added, acknowledgement added; to appear in PRD