Published May 21, 2008
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Journal article
Effective action of vacuum: the semiclassical approach
Creators
- 1. Departamento de Fisica - ICE, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, CEP 36036-330, MG (Brazil)
Description
We present a brief, and to a great extent, pedagogical, review on renormalization in curved spacetime and some recent results on the derivation and better understanding of quantum corrections to the action of gravity. The paper is mainly devoted to the semiclassical approach, but we also discuss its importance for quantum gravity and string theory. (topical review)
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/25/10/103001Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1088/0264-9381/25/10/103001;
- PII
- S0264-9381(08)34309-3;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Journal Volume
- 25
- Journal Issue
- 10
- Journal Page Range
- [47 p.]
- ISSN
- 0264-9381
- CODEN
- CQGRDG
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39108289
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACTION INTEGRAL; CORRECTIONS; GRAVITATION; QUANTUM GRAVITY; RENORMALIZATION; REVIEWS; SEMICLASSICAL APPROXIMATION; SPACE-TIME; STRING MODELS; STRING THEORY
- Descriptors DEC
- APPROXIMATIONS; CALCULATION METHODS; COMPOSITE MODELS; DOCUMENT TYPES; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; INTEGRALS; M-THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUARK MODEL