Stress tensor correlators in the Schwinger Keldysh formalism
Abstract
We express stress tensor correlators using the Schwinger Keldysh formalism. The absence of off-diagonal counterterms in this formalism ensures that the +- and -+ correlators are free of primitive divergences. We use dimensional regularization in position space to explicitly check this at one loop order for a massless scalar on a flat space background. We use the same procedure to show that the ++ correlator contains the divergences first computed by 't Hooft and Veltman for the scalar contribution to the graviton self-energy.
- Publication:
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Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Pub Date:
- May 2005
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:gr-qc/0411003
- Bibcode:
- 2005CQGra..22.1637F
- Keywords:
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- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 14 pages, LaTeX 2epsilon, no figures, revised for publication