GAUGE DEPENDENCE OF THE EFFECTIVE ACTION IN EINSTEIN GRAVITY

Citation
Pm. Lavrov et Aa. Reshetnyak, GAUGE DEPENDENCE OF THE EFFECTIVE ACTION IN EINSTEIN GRAVITY, Physics of atomic nuclei, 58(10), 1995, pp. 1812-1816
Citations number
61
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear","Physics, Particles & Fields
Journal title
ISSN journal
10637788
Volume
58
Issue
10
Year of publication
1995
Pages
1812 - 1816
Database
ISI
SICI code
1063-7788(1995)58:10<1812:GDOTEA>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
Einstein gravity is considered in a special one-parameter background g auge. The one-loop effective action of the theory is calculated to the first order in the gauge parameter. It is shown that, on the mass she ll, the effective action is independent of the gauge parameter.