The finiteness requirement for six-dimensional Euclidean-Einstein gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/10/307MaRDI QIDQ4514253zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 14 November 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9911167

zbMATH Keywords

Euclidean-Einstein gravityfinitenessRicci-flat manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: The finiteness requirement for Euclidean Einstein gravity is shown to be so stringent that only the flat metric is allowed. We examine counterterms in 4D and 6D Ricci-flat manifolds from general invariance arguments.

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