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Three different minus signs
A compact sign and normalization audit › Three different minus signs · lines 1343–1361
The reduced graviton Hessian is , so its inverse is .
The scalar action Hessian is , so its inverse is , even though the equation inverse is .
The retarded-minus-advanced scalar Hessian kernel is therefore . With the convention (eq:CCR),
Since at equal times is the spatial delta, this gives in the canonical ordering. Thus the action and commutator signs agree.
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