SCALE-INVARIANT GRAVITY IN 2 DIMENSIONS

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SCHMIDT, HJ
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[1] Central Institute of Astrophysics, Academy of Sciences, 1591 Potsdam
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10.1063/1.529267
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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The vacuum field equations are solved in a V2 following from the scale-invariant gravitational Lagrangian pound sterling = R(k + 1). For pound sterling = R2, exactly six solutions exist. Just one of them breaks the scale-invariance and has indefinite signature. For k --> 0, nontrivial results also arise. Their relation to two-dimensional quantum gravity is discussed. For pound sterling = F(R) a Birkhoff-type theorem holds.
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