Damiano Anselmi 1997 Class. Quantum Grav. 14 2031 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/14/8/006
Damiano Anselmi
Show affiliationsCertain topological invariants of the moduli space of gravitational instantons are defined and studied. Several amplitudes of two- and four-dimensional topological gravity are computed. A notion of puncture in four dimensions, which is particularly meaningful in the class of Weyl instantons, is introduced. The topological embedding, a theoretical framework for constructing physical amplitudes that are well defined order-by-order in perturbation theory around instantons, is explicitly applied to the computation of the correlation functions of Dirac fermions in a punctured gravitational background, as well as to the most general QED and QCD amplitude. Various alternatives are worked out, discussed and compared. The quantum background affects the propagation by generating a certain effective `quantum' metric. The topological embedding could represent a new chapter of quantum field theory.
Issue 8 (August 1997)
Received 12 August 1996, in final form 28 February 1997
Damiano Anselmi 1997 Class. Quantum Grav. 14 2031
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