Published March 15, 1988
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Journal article
Stress tensors from effective potentials
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, Center for Relativity, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
Description
The interpretation of the effective potential as an energy density is critiqued. T/sub μ//sub ν/ can be found from the effective potential by a careful treatment of the potential's dependence on the metric. The subtleties involved are discussed using several examples for clarification. We have clarified the physical meaning of the effective potential; in general it should not be interpreted as the energy density of a system
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Phys. Rev., D
- Journal Volume
- 37
- Journal Issue
- 6
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 1694-1695
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 19056392
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATIONS; ENERGY DENSITY; FIELD THEORIES; LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION; METRICS; MINKOWSKI SPACE; POTENTIALS; SCALAR FIELDS; SPACE-TIME
- Descriptors DEC
- EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; SPACE