THE BASIS OF NONLOCAL CURVATURE INVARIANTS IN QUANTUM-GRAVITY THEORY - 3RD-ORDER

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作者
BARVINSKY, AO
GUSEV, YV
VILKOVISKY, GA
ZHYTNIKOV, VV
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[1] MOSCOW NUCL SAFETY INST,MOSCOW 113191,RUSSIA
[2] PN LEBEDEV PHYS INST,MOSCOW 117924,RUSSIA
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10.1063/1.530427
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
A complete basis of nonlocal invariants in quantum gravity theory is built to third order in space-time curvature and matter-field strengths. The nonlocal identities are obtained which reduce this basis for manifolds with dimensionality 2omega<6. The present results are used in heat-kernel theory, theory of gauge fields and serve as a basis for the model-independent approach to quantum gravity and, in particular, for the study of nonlocal vacuum effects in the gravitational collapse problem.
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页码:3525 / 3542
页数:18
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