Published August 4, 1988
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Journal article
Determinants of conformal wave operators in four dimensions
Creators
- 1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), NM (USA). Theoretical Div.
- 2. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik und Astrophysik, Muenchen (Germany, F.R.). Werner-Heisenberg-Inst. fuer Physik
Description
We consider conformally coupled wave operators in four dimensions. Such operators are associated with conformally coupled massless scalars, massless spin 1/2 particles, and abelian gauge bosons. We explicitly calculate the change in the determinant of these wave operators as a function of conformal deformations of the background metric. This variation is given in terms of a geometrical object, the second Seeley-de Witt coefficient. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Phys. Lett., B
- Journal Volume
- 209
- Journal Issue
- 2/3
- Series
- Phys. Lett., B.
- Journal Page Range
- 209-213
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 19096267
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; COUPLING; DEFORMATION; DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY; FERMIONS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY; INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS; LAPLACIAN; MASSLESS PARTICLES; METRICS; RIEMANN SPACE; SCALAR FIELDS; SPACE-TIME; SPINOR FIELDS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; VECTOR FIELDS; WAVE PROPAGATION
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD THEORIES; GEOMETRY; INTERMEDIATE BOSONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MATHEMATICS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPACE