Conformal coupling of the scalar field with gravity in higher dimensions and invariant powers of the Laplacian

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2006.12.027zbMATH Open1248.83039arXivhep-th/0611077OpenAlexW1977601867MaRDI QIDQ712938FDOQ712938

Ruben Manvelyan, D. H. Tchrakian

Publication date: 18 October 2012

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The hierarchy of conformally coupled scalars with the increasing scaling dimensions $Delt{a}_k=k-d/2$, $k=1,2,3,\mathrm{...}$ connected with the $k$-th Euler density in the corresponding space-time dimensions $dgeq2k$ is proposed. The corresponding conformal invariant Lagrangian with the $k$-th power of Laplacian for the already known cases $k=1,2$ is reviewed, and the subsequent case of $k=3$ is completely constructed and analyzed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0611077

zbMATH Keywords

conformal couplingconformal invariant Lagrangianscalar field with gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90)

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