Off-diagonal coefficients of the DeWitt-Schwinger and Hadamard representations of the Feynman propagator

Abstract

Having in mind applications to gravitational wave theory (in connection with the radiation reaction problem), stochastic semiclassical gravity (in connection with the regularization of the noise kernel) and quantum field theory in higher-dimensional curved spacetime (in connection with the Hadamard regularization of the stress-energy tensor), we improve the DeWitt-Schwinger and Hadamard representations of the Feynman propagator of a massive scalar field theory defined on an arbitrary gravitational background by deriving higher-order terms for the covariant Taylor series expansions of the geometrical coefficients -- i.e., the DeWitt and Hadamard coefficients -- that define them.

arXiv comment42 pages; v2: Incorrect claims suppressed, ref. added, typos corrected, expansion of the Van Vleck-Morette determinant improved; v3: Minor changes and refs. added to match the published version

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