AVERAGE EFFECTIVE POTENTIAL FOR THE CONFORMAL FACTOR

被引:34
作者
FLOREANINI, R
PERCACCI, R
机构
[1] UNIV TRIESTE,DIPARTIMENTO FIS TEOR,I-34014 TRIESTE,ITALY
[2] SCUOLA INT SUPER STUDI AVANZATI,I-34014 TRIESTE,ITALY
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10.1016/0550-3213(95)00479-C
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
We discuss a method of quantization which produces a nontrivial effective potential for the conformal factor of the metric, both in the case of matter fields propagating in a fixed background geometry, and in the case of pure gravity. In particular, using the method of the average effective potential, we compute the scale dependence of the conformal factor. We offer some speculations on the possible significance of our results.
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页码:141 / 160
页数:20
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