Canonical quantization of gauge field. III. The gravitational field

Journal Article · Wed Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981 · Chin. Phys.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6056430

Yan, M L; Bao, X M; Zhao, B H

The gravitational field is quantized within the canonical formalism under the harmonic gauge condition. The gravitational field is decomposed into transversal fields and two self-commuting fields. The equation of motion of the self-commuting field chi/sub ..mu../ is derived, and the contributions of self-commuting fields to physical S-matrix elements are investigated. Then the gauge compensating term of the effective action is obtained. The result is in agreement with that obtained by the path integral method, but with our method the difficulty of the Gribov gauge ambiguity can be overcome.

• Research Organization: University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui
• OSTI ID: 6056430
• Journal Information: Chin. Phys.; (United States), Journal Name: Chin. Phys.; (United States) Vol. 1:3; ISSN CHPHD
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
DIAGRAMS
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
EQUATIONS
EQUATIONS OF MOTION
FEYNMAN DIAGRAM
FUNCTIONS
GAUGE INVARIANCE
GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS
GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION
GRAVITONS
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES
LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION
MASSLESS PARTICLES
MATRICES
PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
POSTULATED PARTICLES
RADIATIONS
S MATRIX
SPACE-TIME