Wick Rotation, Regularization of Propagators by a Complex Metric and Multidimensional Cosmology
Abstract
The Wick rotation in quantum field theory is considered in terms of analytical continuation in the signature matrix parameter w = eta_00. Regularization of propagators by a complex metric parameter in most cases preserves (i) the convergence of Feynmann integrals (understood as Lebesgue integrals) if the corresponding integrals of Euclidean theory are convergent; (ii) the regularity of propagators in the coordinate representation if there is regularity in the Euclidean case. The well-known covariant regularization by a complex mass does not in general satisfy these conditions. Theories with a large family of propagators regularized by complex metric were previously considered by the author, and analogues of the Bogoliubov-Parasiuk-Hepp-Zimmermann theorems were proved. [V.D.Ivashchuk, Izv. Akad. Nauk Mold. SSR, Ser. Fiz.-Tekhn. i Math. Nauk, 3 (1987), 8; 1 (1988), 10]. This paper shows that in the case of multidimensional cosmology describing the evolution of n spaces M_i, i = 1, ..., n, the Wick rotation in the minisuperspace may be performed by analytical continuation in the dimensions N_i = dim M_i or in the dimension of the time submanifold M_0.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9705008,
title = {Wick Rotation, Regularization of Propagators by a Complex Metric and Multidimensional Cosmology},
author = {Vladimir D. Ivashchuk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9705008},
year = {2016}
}
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9 pages, Latex. To appear in Grav. and Cosmol. v.3, No.1 (1997)