A short note on dynamics and degrees of freedom in 2d classical gravity

DOI10.1007/S10714-020-2662-7MaRDI QIDQ2295005zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Corinne de Lacroix, Harold Erbin

Publication date 12 February 2020

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.04097

zbMATH Keywords

degrees of freedomclassical gravity\(2d\) gravityfield theory on curved space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

Abstract: We comment on some peculiarities of matter with and without Weyl invariance coupled to classical $2d$ Einstein-Hilbert gravity for several models, in particular, related to the counting of degrees of freedom and on the dynamics. We find that theories where the matter action is Weyl invariant has generically more degrees of freedom than action without the invariance. This follows from the Weyl invariance of the metric equations of motion independently of the invariance of the action. Then, we study another set of models with scalar fields and show that solutions to the equations of motion are either trivial or inconsistent. To our knowledge, these aspects of classical $2d$ gravity have not been put forward and can be interesting to be remembered when using it as a toy model for $4d$ gravity. The goal of this note is also as a pedagogical exercise: our results follow from standard methods, but we emphasize more direct computations.

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