Average Effective Potential for the Conformal Factor

Details Average Effective Potential for the Conformal Factor Average Effective Potential for the Conformal Factor

1993-05-29

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9305172v1

Nucl.Phys. B436 (1995) 141-162

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

8 pages, plain TEX, SISSA 71/93-EP

Scientific paper

10.1016/0550-3213(95)00479-C

In a four dimensional theory of gravity with lagrangian quadratic in curvature and torsion, we compute the effective action for metrics of the form $g_{\mu\nu}=\rho^2\delta_{\mu\nu}$, with $\rho$ constant. Using standard field-theoretic methods we find that one loop quantum effects produce a nontrivial effective potential for $\rho$. We explain this unexpected result by showing how our regularization procedure differs from the one that is usually adopted in Quantum Gravity. Using the method of the average effective potential, we compute the scale dependence of the v.e.v. of the conformal factor.

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