Quantum Effective Action in Spacetimes with Branes and Boundaries: Diffeomorphism Invariance
| dc.creator | Barvinsky, A. O. | |
| dc.date | 2006-08-01 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T11:06:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T11:06:58Z | |
| dc.description | We construct a gauge-fixing procedure in the path integral for gravitational models with branes and boundaries. This procedure incorporates a set of gauge conditions which gauge away effectively decoupled diffeomorphisms acting in the $(d+1)$-dimensional bulk and on the $d$-dimensional brane. The corresponding gauge-fixing factor in the path integral factorizes as a product of the bulk and brane (surface-theory) factors. This factorization underlies a special bulk wavefunction representation of the brane effective action. We develop the semiclassical expansion for this action and explicitly derive it in the one-loop approximation. The one-loop brane effective action can be decomposed into the sum of the gauge-fixed bulk contribution and the contribution of the pseudodifferential operator of the brane-to-brane propagation of quantum gravitational perturbations. The gauge dependence of these contributions is analyzed by the method of Ward identities. By the recently suggested method of the Neumann-Dirichlet reduction the bulk propagator in the semiclassical expansion is converted to the Dirichlet boundary conditions preferable from the calculational viewpoint. | |
| dc.description | 37 pages, LaTeX | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0608004 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0608004 | |
| dc.identifier | Phys.Rev.D74:084033,2006 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.74.084033 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/189695 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Quantum Effective Action in Spacetimes with Branes and Boundaries: Diffeomorphism Invariance | |
| dc.type | text |