Functional integration on two-dimensional Regge geometries

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00260-XMaRDI QIDQ1921038zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pietro Menotti, P. P. Peirano

Publication date 12 August 1996

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9602002

zbMATH Keywords

continuum limitdiscretized sphere topologyexact Liouville action expressionexact translational invarianceRiemann Roch relationunique Lichnerowicz operator extension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27)

Abstract: By adopting the standard definition of diffeomorphisms for a Regge surface we give an exact expression of the Liouville action both for the sphere and the torus topology in the discretized case. The results are obtained in a general way by choosing the unique self--adjoint extension of the Lichnerowicz operator satisfying the Riemann--Roch relation. We also give the explicit form of the integration measure for the conformal factor. For the sphere topology the theory is exactly invariant under the $SL(2,C)$ transformations, while for the torus topology we have exact translational and modular invariance. In the continuum limit the results flow into the well known expressions.

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