Locally anisotropic gravity and strings (Q1290403)

Differential geometric methods play an important role in description and investigation of problems of gravity and strings. The paper under review consists of 6 Sections. In Section 1 the author briefly discusses connections between gravity and strings and locally anisotropic (la) spaces and gives the plan of the paper. Section 2 contains a geometric background of vector bundles provided with nonlinear and distinguished connections and metric structure. In Section 3 the author presents a generalization of some necessary results on the non-linear \(\sigma-\)model and string propagation to the case of la-backgrounds. The aim of Section 4 is to study the problem of regularization and quantum ambiguities in \(\beta-\)functions of the renormalization group and to present the results on one- and two-loop calculi for the la-\(\sigma-\)model. In Section 5 the author investigates duality of la-\(\sigma-\)model. The paper ends with conclusions, preceded by a summary of the author's results (Section 6).