On the conformal transformation and duality in gravity

Details On the conformal transformation and duality in gravity On the conformal transformation and duality in gravity

1996-10-17

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9610129v1

Class.Quant.Grav. 14 (1997) 391-406

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

LaTeX, 15 pages, no figures. To appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/14/2/013

The theory described by the sum of the Einstein-Hilbert action and the action of conformal scalar field possesses the duality symmetry which includes some special conformal transformation of the metric, and also inversion of scalar field and of the gravitational constant. In the present paper the conformal duality is generalized for arbitrary space-time dimension $n \neq 2$ and for the general sigma-model type conformal scalar theory. We also consider to apply the conformal duality for the investigation of quantum gravity in the strong curvature regime. The trace of the first coefficient of the Schwinger-DeWitt expansion is derived and it's dependence on the gauge fixing condition is considered. After that we discuss the way to extract the gauge-fixing independent result and also it's possible physical applications.

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