Complex action and quantum gravity
- 15 February 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 41 (4) , 1105-1111
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.41.1105
Abstract
We give a general framework of quantum mechanics for the system of Lagrangians containing complex total-derivative terms. After being examined for the harmonic oscillator, our formalism is applied to Einstein gravity. It leads to a systematic quantum theory of Ashtekar's new canonical gravity.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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