Metrics with vanishing quantum corrections

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/25/14/145017zbMATH Open1145.83014arXiv0803.2438OpenAlexW2102886838MaRDI QIDQ3516248FDOQ3516248

Sigbjørn Hervik, Alan Coley, Gary W. Gibbons, Christopher N. Pope

Publication date: 1 August 2008

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

Abstract: We investigate solutions of the classical Einstein or supergravity equations that solve any set of quantum corrected Einstein equations in which the Einstein tensor plus a multiple of the metric is equated to a symmetric conserved tensor $T_{muu}$ constructed from sums of terms the involving contractions of the metric and powers of arbitrary covariant derivatives of the curvature tensor. A classical solution, such as an Einstein metric, is called {it universal} if, when evaluated on that Einstein metric, $T_{muu}$ is a multiple of the metric. A Ricci flat classical solution is called {it strongly universal} if, when evaluated on that Ricci flat metric, $T_{muu}$ vanishes. It is well known that pp-waves in four spacetime dimensions are strongly universal. We focus attention on a natural generalisation; Einstein metrics with holonomy $mSim(n-2)$ in which all scalar invariants are zero or constant. In four dimensions we demonstrate that the generalised Ghanam-Thompson metric is weakly universal and that the Goldberg-Kerr metric is strongly universal; indeed, we show that universality extends to all 4-dimensional $mSim(2)$ Einstein metrics. We also discuss generalizations to higher dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.2438

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

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