Effective action for scalar fields in two-dimensional gravity

DOI10.1006/APHY.2001.6210MaRDI QIDQ1597384zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. O. Katanaev

Publication date 2 July 2002

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0101033

zbMATH Keywords

2D gravityeffective actionscalar field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We consider a general two-dimensional gravity model minimally or nonminimally coupled to a scalar field. The canonical form of the model is elucidated, and a general solution of the equations of motion in the massless case is reviewed. In the presence of a scalar field all geometric fields (zweibein and Lorentz connection) are excluded from the model by solving exactly their Hamiltonian equations of motion. In this way the effective equations of motion and the corresponding effective action for a scalar field are obtained. It is written in a Minkowskian space-time and does not include any geometric variables. The effective action arises as a boundary term and is nontrivial both for open and closed universes. The reason is that unphysical degrees of freedom cannot be compactly supported because they must satisfy the constraint equation. As an example we consider spherically reduced gravity minimally coupled to a massless scalar field. The effective action is used to reproduce the Fisher and Roberts solutions.

Review text

A wide class of two-dimensional gravity models with torsion and equivalent generalized dilation models are considered. It is admitted that nonminimal coupling is sufficiently general to include spherically reduced gravity. The Hamiltonian formulation of the model is given. A general solution of the equations of motion in the matterless case and the equivalence with the dilaton model are briefly reviewed. The geometric part of the equations of motion with respect to the zweibein and Lorentz connection assuming the scalar field to be arbitrary is solved. The solution is substituted into the equations of motion for a scalar field. In this way the effective equations of motion are obtained only for a scalar field and its conjugate momentum. It is shown that the effective action yielding these equations arises as a boundary term. The effective equations of motion are written in a Minkowskian space-time and provide a general solution to the effective equations of motion. For spherically reduced gravity a more general effective action depending on some arbitrary function of time to be fixed by boundary conditions on the metric is given.

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