Published February 20, 1995 | Version v1
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Average effective potential for the conformal factor

Creators

  • 1. Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Universita di Trieste, Strada Costiera 11, 34014 Trieste (Italy)
  • 2. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trieste (Italy)
  • 3. International School for Advanced Studies, via Beirut 4, 34014 Trieste (Italy)

Description

We discuss a method of quantization which produces a nontrivial effective potential for the conformal factor of the metric, both in the case of matter fields propagating in a fixed background geometry, and in the case of pure gravity. In particular, using the method of the average effective potential, we compute the scale dependence of the conformal factor. We offer some speculations on the possible significance of our results. ((orig.))

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
436
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 141-160.
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
Netherlands
INIS RN
26042793
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ACTION INTEGRAL; CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; GRAVITATIONAL INTERACTIONS; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; MATTER; METRICS; POTENTIALS; QUANTUM GRAVITY; RIEMANN SPACE; SCALING LAWS; SECOND QUANTIZATION; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
Descriptors DEC
BASIC INTERACTIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GEOMETRY; INTEGRALS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MATHEMATICS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTIZATION; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPACE