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Stress Tensor Correlators in the Schwinger-Keldysh Formalism

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-08-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We express stress tensor correlators using the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. The absence of off-diagonal counterterms in this formalism ensures that the +- and -+ correlators are free of primitive divergences. We use dimensional regularization in position space to explicitly check this at one loop order for a massless scalar on a flat space background. We use the same procedure to show that the ++ correlator contains the divergences first computed by `t Hooft and Veltman for the scalar contribution to the graviton self-energy.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0411003,
  title  = {Stress Tensor Correlators in the Schwinger-Keldysh Formalism},
  author = {L. H. Ford and R. P. Woodard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0411003},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

14 pages, LaTeX 2epsilon, no figures, revised for publication