Coulomb Gauge in One-Loop Quantum Cosmology
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
The well-known discrepancies between covariant and non-covariant formalisms in quantum field theory and quantum cosmology are analyzed by focusing on the Coulomb gauge for vacuum Maxwell theory. On studying a flat Euclidean background with boundaries, the corresponding mode-by-mode analysis of one-loop quantum amplitudes agrees with the results of the Schwinger-DeWitt technique and of mode-by-mode calculations in relativistic gauges.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9506062,
title = {Coulomb Gauge in One-Loop Quantum Cosmology},
author = {Giampiero Esposito and Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9506062},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages, plain-tex, recently appearing in Physics Letters B, volume 336, pages 324-329, September 1994. The authors apologize for the delay in circulating the paper, due to technical problems now fixed