Quantizing the Palatini action using a transverse traceless propagator
High Energy Physics - Theory
2017-12-27 v2
Abstract
We consider the first order form of the Einstein-Hilbert action and quantize it using the path integral. Two gauge fixing conditions are imposed so that the graviton propagator is both traceless and transverse. It is shown that these two gauge conditions result in two complex Fermionic vector ghost fields and one real Bosonic vector ghost field. All Feynman diagrams to any order in perturbation theory can be constructed from two real Bosonic fields, two Fermionic ghost fields and one real Bosonic ghost field that propagate. These five fields interact through just five three point vertices and one four point vertex.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1705.07891,
title = {Quantizing the Palatini action using a transverse traceless propagator},
author = {F. T. Brandt and D. G. C. McKeon and Chenguang Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.07891},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
7 pages; accepted for publication in Physical Review D (the title has been changed)