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The Heat Kernel in Riemann Normal Coordinates and Multiloop Feynman Graphs in Curved Spacetime

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-08-09 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We present a formalism for computing arbitrary multi-loop Feynman graphs in curved spacetime using the heat kernel approach. To this end, we compute the off-diagonal components of the heat kernel in Riemann normal coordinates up to second order in the curvature.

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@article{arxiv.2408.04005,
  title  = {The Heat Kernel in Riemann Normal Coordinates and Multiloop Feynman Graphs in Curved Spacetime},
  author = {Igor Carneiro and Gero von Gersdorff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.04005},
  year   = {2024}
}
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