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Phys. Rev. D 45, 4473–4485 (1992)

Functional integration measure in quantum gravity

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Damiano Anselmi
Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

We study a peculiar regularization of quantum gravity at one-loop order intended to exhibit the properties of the functional measure. It reminds one of the Pauli-Villars technique in the sense that massive fields are introduced as regulators (and the mass is intended to go to infinity). The Pauli-Villars regulators are spin-2, -1, -½, and -0 particles coupled to gravity in a covariant way (mass terms included). We show that, under these conditions, the measure required in order to remove the maximal ultraviolet divergences [i.e., the divergences proportional to δ(r)(0) if r is the space-time dimension] is a product of measures of Fujikawa. Both the action and the measure of the functional integral are Becchi-Rouet-Stora (BRS) invariant. We consider also the regularization in the background-field formalism. We show that the measure of Fujikawa must be naturally generalized in order to be invariant under reparametrizations of the background as well as BRS invariant.

© 1992 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.45.4473
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.45.4473
PACS:
04.60.+n