Published April 5, 1990 | Version v1
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Self-interacting scalar fields on a conformally flat background

Creators

  • 1. Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels (Belgium). Service Chimie-Physique

Description

We investigate the behaviour of a real self-interacting scalar field Ψ with arbitrary curvature coupling in a conformally flat space-time. A proof is given that the classical solutions admit at least a six-dimensional group of motions acting on three-dimensional hypersurfaces. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters, (Section) B
Journal Volume
238
Journal Issue
2-4
Series
Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
262-264
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBA

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
Netherlands
INIS RN
21050653
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ACTION INTEGRAL; CONFORMAL GROUPS; CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; CONFORMAL MAPPING; COUPLING; EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATIONS; LAGRANGE EQUATIONS; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; LORENTZ GROUPS; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; METRICS; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; RIEMANN SPACE; ROTATIONAL INVARIANCE; SCALAR FIELDS; SELF-ENERGY; SO-3 GROUPS; SPACE-TIME; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
Descriptors DEC
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ENERGY; EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; INTEGRALS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POINCARE GROUPS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SO GROUPS; SPACE; SYMMETRY GROUPS; TOPOLOGICAL MAPPING; TRANSFORMATIONS

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Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract CEE ST2 0449