Two-form gravity and the generation of space-time.

DOI10.1142/S0217751X96001474MaRDI QIDQ2775521zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Miyuki Katsuki, Akio Sugamoto, Shin'ichi Nojiri

Publication date 26 February 2002

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9506073

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

Abstract: In the framework of the two-form gravity, which is classically equivalent to the Einstein gravity, the one-loop effective potential for the conformal factor of metric is calculated in the finite volume and in the finite temperature by choosing a temporal gauge condition. There appears a quartically divergent term which cannot be removed by the renormalization of the cosmological term and we find there is only one non-trivial minimum in the effective potential. If the cut-off scale has a physical meaning, eg the Planck scale coming from string theory, this minimum might explain why the space-time is generated, ie why the classical metric has a non-trivial value.

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