Published August 15, 1990 | Version v1
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Two-dimensional quantum gravity in the conformal gauge

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics, Sogang University, C.P.O. Box 1142, Seoul 100-611 (Korea)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 150 Cheongryang, Seoul (Korea)

Description

Gravity coupled to a scalar field in two dimensions is analyzed in the conformal gauge. We obtain the solution of a scalar field. The residual symmetry associated with the scalar field is found from the invariance of the action and the covariance of the equation of motion of a scalar field. This symmetry is naturally related to the fact that the energy-momentum tensor satisfies the transformation rule of the usual second-rank tensor under SL(2,R)direct-product SL(2,R) group transformations for the coordinates x+ and x-

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review, D
Journal Volume
42
Journal Issue
4
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
1144-1146
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDA

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
22013072
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; ENERGY-MOMENTUM TENSOR; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GAUGE INVARIANCE; LIGHT CONE; METRICS; QUANTUM GRAVITY; RICCI TENSOR; SCALAR FIELDS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
Descriptors DEC
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPACE-TIME; TENSORS