Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2001-11-20
Phys.Lett. B530 (2002) 251-257
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
9 pages, LaTeX, misprints in a formula (eq. (11)) removed
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(02)01322-9
The problem of fixing measure in the path integral for the Regge-discretised gravity is considered from the viewpoint of it's "best approximation" to the already known formal continuum general relativity (GR) measure. A rigorous formulation may consist in comparing functional Fourier transforms of the measures, i.e. characteristic or generating functionals, and requiring these to coincide on some dense set in the functional space. The possibility for such set to exist is due to the Regge manifold being a particular case of general Riemannian one (Regge calculus is a minisuperspace theory). The two versions of the measure are obtained depending on what metric tensor, covariant or contravariant one, is taken as fundamental field variable. The closed expressions for the measure are obtained in the two simple cases of Regge manifold. These turn out to be quite reasonable one of them indicating that appropriately defined continuum limit of the Regge measure would reproduce the original continuum GR measure.
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