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arxiv: gr-qc/0411003 · v2 · submitted 2004-10-29 · 🌀 gr-qc · hep-ph· hep-th

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Stress Tensor Correlators in the Schwinger-Keldysh Formalism

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keywords correlatorsformalismdivergencesscalarschwinger-keldyshspacestresstensor
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We express stress tensor correlators using the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. The absence of off-diagonal counterterms in this formalism ensures that the +- and -+ correlators are free of primitive divergences. We use dimensional regularization in position space to explicitly check this at one loop order for a massless scalar on a flat space background. We use the same procedure to show that the ++ correlator contains the divergences first computed by `t Hooft and Veltman for the scalar contribution to the graviton self-energy.

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