FINITE-TEMPERATURE INTERACTING SCALAR FIELD-THEORIES IN CURVED SPACETIME

Authors
KIRSTEN K
Citation
K. Kirsten, FINITE-TEMPERATURE INTERACTING SCALAR FIELD-THEORIES IN CURVED SPACETIME, Classical and quantum gravity, 10(8), 1993, pp. 1461-1469
Citations number
57
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Classical and quantum gravity → ACNP
ISSN journal
02649381
Volume
10
Issue
8
Year of publication
1993
Pages
1461 - 1469
Database
ISI
SICI code
0264-9381(1993)10:8<1461:FISFIC>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
We consider a self-interacting scalar field theory in a slowly varying gravitational background field. Assuming that the temperature is high compared with some effective mass appearing naturally in the calculat ion we obtain the derivative expansion in the background field, the qu antity of central interest in the quasilocal approximation scheme.