ON THE EFFECTIVE ACTION OF CHIRAL W3 GRAVITY

被引:30
作者
SCHOUTENS, K
SEVRIN, A
VANNIEUWENHUIZEN, P
机构
[1] Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
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美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0550-3213(92)90238-7
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
We perform a perturbative analysis of the effective action, as defined in the paper, of quantum chiral W3 gravity. The results are given as a 1/c expansion, where c is the central charge of the matter system that drives the W3 gravity dynamics. Certain nonlocalities in the Ward identities for the induced action, which we found previously, are cancelled by 1-loop contributions from propagating spin-2 and spin-3 gauge fields, On the basis of these results, we propose an exact all-order result for the effective action.
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页码:315 / 328
页数:14
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