On the conformal transformation and duality in gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/2/013zbMATH Open0869.58061arXivhep-th/9610129OpenAlexW2079588310MaRDI QIDQ3130076FDOQ3130076

Ilya L. Shapiro

Publication date: 22 April 1997

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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 $neq2$ 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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9610129

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityconformal transformationconformal duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

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