Published March 16, 1989
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Journal article
The phase of the sum over spheres
Description
The gravitational saddle point integral which arises in recent work of Hawking and Coleman need not be real. We determine the phase to be (-i)d+2, implying that Coleman's solution to the cosmological constant problem can work, in its present form, only in dimension d=2 mod 4. The physical interpretation of this phase is obscure. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters, (Section) B
- Journal Volume
- 219
- Journal Issue
- 2/3
- Series
- Phys. Lett., B.
- Journal Page Range
- 251-257
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 20038280
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CANONICAL DIMENSION; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT; EUCLIDEAN SPACE; FEYNMAN PATH INTEGRAL; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; QUANTUM GRAVITY; SPACE-TIME; TOPOLOGY
- Descriptors DEC
- FIELD THEORIES; INTEGRALS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MATHEMATICS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RIEMANN SPACE; SCALE DIMENSION; SPACE
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Grant PHY-86-05978