COULOMB GAUGE IN ONE-LOOP QUANTUM COSMOLOGY

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作者
ESPOSITO, G
KAMENSHCHIK, AY
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[1] DIPARTIMENTO SCI FIS, I-80125 NAPLES, ITALY
[2] RUSSIAN ACAD SCI, INST NUCL SAFETY, MOSCOW 113191, RUSSIA
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10.1016/0370-2693(94)90540-1
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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The well-known discrepancies between covariant and non-covariant formalisms in quantum field theory and quantum cosmology are analyzed by focusing on the Coulomb gauge for vacuum Maxwell theory. On studying a flat Euclidean background with boundaries, the corresponding mode-by-mode analysis of one-loop quantum amplitudes agrees with the results of the Schwinger-DeWitt technique and of mode-by-mode calculations in relativistic gauges.
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页码:324 / 329
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