Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2001-04-03
Class.Quant.Grav.18:3825-3842,2001
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
latex file, 22 pages
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/18/18/303
The aim of this paper is to find out a correspondence between one-loop effective action $W_E$ defined by means of path integral in Euclidean gravity and the free energy $F$ obtained by summation over the modes. The analysis is given for quantum fields on stationary space-times of a general form. For such problems a convenient procedure of a "Wick rotation" from Euclidean to Lorentzian theory becomes quite non-trivial implying transition from one real section of a complexified space-time manifold to another. We formulate conditions under which $F$ and $W_E$ can be connected and establish an explicit relation of these functionals. Our results are based on the Kaluza-Klein method which enables one to reduce the problem on a stationary space-time to equivalent problem on a static space-time in the presence of a gauge connection. As a by-product, we discover relation between the asymptotic heat-kernel coefficients of elliptic operators on a $D$ dimensional stationary space-times and the heat-kernel coefficients of a $D-1$ dimensional elliptic operators with an Abelian gauge connection.
Fursaev Dmitri
Zelnikov Andrei
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