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Phys. Rev. D 41, 1105–1111 (1990)

Complex action and quantum gravity

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Takeshi Fukuyama
Department of Physics, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto 603, Japan

Kiyoshi Kamimura
Department of Physics, Toho University, Funabashi 274, Japan

Received 2 October 1989; published in the issue dated 15 February 1990

We give a general framework of quantum mechanics for the system of Lagrangians containing complex total-derivative terms. After being examined for the harmonic oscillator, our formalism is applied to Einstein gravity. It leads to a systematic quantum theory of Ashtekar's new canonical gravity.

© 1990 The American Physical Society

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