Gauge dependence and the gravitational effective action
- 15 July 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 30 (2) , 492-494
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.30.492
Abstract
The effective action in a gauge theory is in general gauge dependent. In this paper sufficient conditions are derived under which the effective action is the same in a wide class of gauges at the one-loop order.Keywords
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