ON THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF THE STRUCTURE OF STRING EFFECTIVE ACTIONS AT DIFFERENT ORDERS IN ALPHA'

被引:10
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BENTO, MC [1 ]
BERTOLAMI, O [1 ]
ROMAO, JC [1 ]
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[1] INST NACL INVEST CIENTIF,CTR FIS MAT CONDENSADA,P-1699 LISBON,PORTUGAL
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10.1016/0370-2693(90)90559-O
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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We discuss the interplay between field redefinition ambiguities at orders alpha' and alpha' 2 in the gravitational sector of closed string theory effective actions for the actions for the case of a non-constant dilaton field. We show that, as a consequence, apparently different effective actions for this sector existing in the literature are, in fact, equivalent and discuss the implications of our results for the conjectured relationship between sigma-model beta-functions and string equations of motion.
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