The regularized phase space path integral measure for Maxwell fields coupled to background gravity
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: The regularized phase space path integral measure for Maxwell fields coupled to background gravity
zbMATH Open document ID: 0733.58008
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4916(91)90180-G
author: E. Laenen
author: Peter van Nieuwenhuizen
published in: Annals of Physics
publication date: 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: The authors consider a quantized Maxwell field in an external gravitational field. There are two ways to construct the phase space path integral: First go to the classical Hamiltonian and then covariantly quantize it or: First quantize the configuration space action and then go to the Hamiltonian version. It is shown that both approaches lead to the same phase space path integral up to redefinition of the external gravitational momentum. Then the Pauli-Vilars action and an Einstein invariant mass term are constructed. As a consequence Einstein anomalies are absent.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58D30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81S40
zbMATH DE Number: 4213041
zbMATH Keywords: path integrals
zbMATH Keywords: quantized Maxwell field
reviewed by: Yuri E. Gliklikh
MaRDI profile type: Publication
cites work: Q4333798
cites work: Q3322013
full work available at URL: 0003-4916(91)90180-g
OpenAlex ID: W2054540530
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