Heat Kernel methods in the first-order formalism
High Energy Physics - Theory
2025-04-15 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
In this paper, we extend the heat kernel methods to the first-order formalism of gravity, specifically, in the language of differential forms. This allows us to compute the effective dynamics of 4D gravity when the tetrad degrees of freedom are integrated out. We show that the resulting effective field theory is the Lorentz gauge theory.
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@article{arxiv.2504.10115,
title = {Heat Kernel methods in the first-order formalism},
author = {Abhishek Kumar Mehta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.10115},
year = {2025}
}
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12 pages