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Phys. Rev. D 58, 124029 (1998) [13 pages]

Path integral for the Hilbert-Palatini and Ashtekar gravity

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S. Yu. Alexandrov*
Department of Theoretical Physics, St. Petersburg University, 198904 St. Petersburg, Russia

D. V. Vassilevich
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leipzig University, Augustusplatz 10/11, 04109 Leipzig, Germany

Received 1 June 1998; published 20 November 1998

To write down a path integral for the Ashtekar gravity one must solve three fundamental problems. First, one must understand the rules of complex contour functional integration with holomorphic action. Second, one should find which gauges are compatible with reality conditions. Third, one should evaluate the Faddeev-Popov determinant produced by these conditions. In the present paper we derive the BRST path integral for Hilbert-Palatini gravity. We show that for a certain class of gauge conditions this path integral can be rewritten in terms of the Ashtekar variables. Reality conditions define contours of integration. For our class of gauges all ghost terms coincide with what one could write naively, just ignoring any Jacobian factors arising from the reality conditions.

© 1998 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.58.124029
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.58.124029
PACS:
04.60.Ds, 04.20.Fy

*Email address: alexand@snoopy.phys.spbu.ru

On leave from Department of Theoretical Physics, St. Petersburg University, 198904 St. Petersburg, Russia. Email address: Dmitri.Vassilevich@itp.uni-leipzig.de