A NEW ACTION FOR THE GRAVITATIONAL INTERACTION

被引:5
作者
ALVAREZ, E
CESPEDES, J
VERDAGUER, E
机构
[1] UNIV BARCELONA,DEPT ESTRUCTURA & CONSTITUENTS MAT,E-08028 BARCELONA,SPAIN
[2] UNIV AUTONOMA BARCELONA,FIS TEOR GRP,E-08193 BARCELONA,SPAIN
[3] UNIV AUTONOMA MADRID,DEPT FIS TEOR,E-28049 MADRID,SPAIN
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10.1016/0370-2693(92)91360-L
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
A new action for the gravitational interaction is proposed, which is bounded from below in riemannian spaces and reduces to the standard Einstein-Hilbert action at low energies. The action uses as essential variables the geodesic two-point distance, which gives it a non-local character. It reduces to the Einstein-Hilbert form in the weak coupling limit, plus quartic corrections suppressed by m(Pl)-1 which can be put in the (dimensionally continued) Euler characteristic form by field redefinitions.
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