New Kernels in Quantum Gravity

Abstract

Recent work in the literature has proposed the use of non-local boundary conditions in Euclidean quantum gravity. The present paper studies first a more general form of such a scheme for bosonic gauge theories, by adding to the boundary operator for mixed boundary conditions of local nature a two-by-two matrix of pseudo-differential operators with pseudo-homogeneous kernels. The request of invariance of such boundary conditions under infinitesimal gauge transformations leads to non-local boundary conditions on ghost fields. In Euclidean quantum gravity, an alternative scheme is proposed, where non-local boundary conditions and the request of their complete gauge invariance are sufficient to lead to gauge-field and ghost operators of pseudo-differential nature. The resulting boundary conditions have a Dirichlet and a pseudo-differential sector, and are pure Dirichlet for the ghost. This approach is eventually extended to Euclidean Maxwell theory.

19 pages, plain Tex. In this revised version, section 5 is new, section 3 is longer, and the presentation has been improved

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