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Microcanonical quantum cosmology: gauge fixing and functional determinants on a circle

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-01-16 v2

Abstract

Gauge fixing procedure in the path integral for the microcanonical statistical sum in quantum cosmology is considered in a special class of gauge conditions free from residual gauge ambiguities. Relevant functional determinants, path integrals and functional delta-functions on a circle are considered.

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@article{arxiv.1401.2687,
  title  = {Microcanonical quantum cosmology: gauge fixing and functional determinants on a circle},
  author = {Dmitry Nesterov and Andrei Barvinsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.2687},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

12 pages, no figures, minor misprints corrected and comments added

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