MIXED BOUNDARY-CONDITIONS IN EUCLIDEAN QUANTUM-GRAVITY

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作者
ESPOSITO, G
KAMENSHCHIK, AY
机构
[1] UNIV NAPLES,DIPARTIMENTO SCI FIS,I-80125 NAPLES,ITALY
[2] RUSSIAN ACAD SCI,INST NUCL SAFETY,MOSCOW 113191,RUSSIA
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10.1088/0264-9381/12/11/004
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
This paper studies a new set of mixed boundary conditions in Euclidean quantum gravity. These involve, in particular, Robin boundary conditions on the perturbed 3-metric and hence lead, by gauge invariance, to Robin conditions on the whole ghost 1-form. The corresponding trace anomaly is evaluated in the case of a Bat Euclidean 4-space bounded by a 3-sphere. In general, this anomaly differs from the ones resulting from other local or non-local boundary conditions studied in recent literature.
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页码:2715 / 2722
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