Published April 1997
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Journal article
Physical states of the quantum conformal factor
Creators
- 1. Centre de Physique Theorique, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau (France)
- 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208 (United States)
- 3. Theoretical Division, T-8, Mail Stop B285, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
Description
The conformal factor of the spacetime metric becomes dynamical due to the trace anomaly of matter fields. Its dynamics is described by an effective action which we quantize by canonical methods on the Einstein universe RxS3. We find an infinite tower of discrete states which satisfy the constraints of quantum diffeomorphism invariance. These physical states are in one-to-one correspondence with operators constructed by integrating integer powers of the Ricci scalar. copyright 1997 The American Physical Society
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 55
- Journal Issue
- 8
- Journal Page Range
- p. 4770-4784.
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 29020330
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CONFORMAL GROUPS; MATTER; METRICS; QUANTIZATION; QUANTUM GRAVITY; SPACE-TIME; UNIVERSE
- Descriptors DEC
- FIELD THEORIES; LIE GROUPS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SYMMETRY GROUPS