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Quantization and Regularization in Perturbative Quantum Cosmology

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

Reduction to physical degrees of freedom before quantization leads to predictions for one-loop amplitudes in quantum cosmology in the presence of boundaries which disagree with the results obtained from Faddeev-Popov theory and boundary-counterterms technique. However, the mode-by-mode analysis of eigenvalue equations for gauge modes and ghost fields remains a very difficult problem. Hence the equivalence or inequivalence of various quantization and regularization techniques cannot be easily proved.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9508036,
  title  = {Quantization and Regularization in Perturbative Quantum Cosmology},
  author = {Giampiero Esposito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9508036},
  year   = {2008}
}

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5 pages, plain-tex, published in Nuovo Cimento B, volume 109, pages 203-205, year 1994