Feynman rules for simplicial gravity
Abstract
We develop the general formalism for performing perturbative diagrammatic expansions in the lattice theory of quantum gravity. The results help establish a precise correspondence between continuum and lattice quantities, and should be a useful guide for nonperturbative studies of gravity. The Feynman rules for Regge;s simplicial lattice formulation of gravity are then discussed in detail in two dimensions. As an application, the two-dimensional conformal anomaly due to a D-component scalar field is explicitly computed in perturbation theory.
- Publication:
-
Nuclear Physics B
- Pub Date:
- February 1996
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0550-3213(96)00216-7
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/9603016
- Bibcode:
- 1996NuPhB.472..447H
- Keywords:
-
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- Corrections and references added