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Lorentz gauge quantization in synchronous coordinates

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-07-14 v1

Abstract

It has been shown that the Gupta-Bleuler method of quantization can be used to impose the Lorentz gauge condition in static space-times but not in cosmological space-times. This implies that the Gupta-Bleuler approach fails in general in non-static space-times. More recently, however, the Dirac method of quantizing constrained dynamical systems has been successfully employed to impose the Lorentz gauge in conformally flat space-times. In this paper we generalize this result by using Dirac's method to impose the Lorentz gauge in a general space-time region where the metric is expressed in synchronous coordinates.

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@article{arxiv.1607.03873,
  title  = {Lorentz gauge quantization in synchronous coordinates},
  author = {Christopher Garner and Dan N. Vollick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.03873},
  year   = {2016}
}

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5 pages

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