Gravitons, induced geometry and expectation value formalism at finite temperature

DOI10.1002/PROP.200810534MaRDI QIDQ3598879zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 3 February 2009

Published in Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2392

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Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: After establishing the positivity constraint and spin content of the theory for gravitons interacting with a necessarily, and extit{a priori}, extit{non}-conserved external energy-momentum tensor, the expectation value formalism of the theory is developed at extit{finite} temperature in the functional extit{differential} treatment of quantum field theory. The necessity of having, extit{a priori}, a non-conserved external energy-momentum tensor is an obvious technical requirement so that its respective ten components may be varied extit{independently} in order to generate expectation values and non-linearities in the theory. The covariance of the extit{induced} Riemann curvature tensor, in the initial vacuum, is established even for the quantization in a gauge corresponding only to two physical states of the gravitons as established above. As an application, the extit{induced} correction to the metric and the underlying geometry is investigated due to a closed string arising from the Nambu action as a solution of a circularly oscillating string as, perhaps, the simplest generalization of a limiting point-like object. Finally it is discussed on why the geometry of spacetime may, in general, depend on temperature due to radiative corrections and its physical significance is emphasized.

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