A momentum-space representation of Feynman propagator in Riemann-Cartan spacetime

Details A momentum-space representation of Feynman propagator in Riemann-Cartan spacetime A momentum-space representation of Feynman propagator in Riemann-Cartan spacetime

2010-04-11

arxiv.org/abs/1004.1777v1

Phys. Rev. D 82, 064007 (2010)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

12 pages

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We first construct generalized Riemann-normal coordinates by using autoparallels, instead of geodesics, in an arbitrary Riemann-Cartan spacetime. With the aid of generalized Riemann-normal coordinates and their associated orthonormal frames, we obtain a momentum-space representation of the Feynman propagator for scalar fields, which is a direct generalization of Bunch and Parker's works to curved spacetime with torsion. We further derive the proper-time representation in $n$ dimensional Riemann-Cartan spacetime from the momentum-space representation. It leads us to obtain the renormalization of one-loop effective Lagrangians of free scalar fields by using dimensional regularization. When torsion tensor vanishes, our resulting momentum-space representation returns to the standard Riemannian results.

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