THE EPSILON-EXPANSION OF 2-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM-GRAVITY

被引:53
作者
JACK, I [1 ]
JONES, DRT [1 ]
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[1] UNIV LIVERPOOL, DEPT APPL MATH & THEORET PHYS, LIVERPOOL L69 3BX, ENGLAND
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10.1016/0550-3213(91)90430-6
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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Motivated by recent suggestions that renormalisation constants evaluated at the fixed point of the epsilon-expansion for two-dimensional quantum gravity might reproduce Polyakov's exact two-dimensional results, we discuss the perturbative calculation of the effective action for quantum gravity in (2 - epsilon) dimensions. We show that the theory is non-renormalizable at two-loop order.
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页码:695 / 712
页数:18
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