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Perturbative quantum gravity in Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-06-10 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this Letter we consider the perturbative quantum gravity on the super-manifold which remains invariant under absolutely anticommuting BRST and anti-BRST transformations. In addition to that the theory posses one more symmetry known as shift symmetry. The BRST invariant Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) action for perturbative quantum gravity is realized as a translation in Grassmann coordinate. Further we show that the quantum master equation of the BV quantization method at one-loop order can be translated to have a superfield structure for the action. However, the BRST as well as anti-BRST invariant BV action is constructed in superspace with the help of two Grassmann coordinates.

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@article{arxiv.1305.4709,
  title  = {Perturbative quantum gravity in Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism},
  author = {Sudhaker Upadhyay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.4709},
  year   = {2013}
}

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10 pages, Revtex, No figure, Journal version

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