PHYSICAL STATES OF THE QUANTUM CONFORMAL FACTOR

Authors
ANTONIADIS I MAZUR PO MOTTOLA E
Citation
I. Antoniadis et al., PHYSICAL STATES OF THE QUANTUM CONFORMAL FACTOR, Physical review. D. Particles and fields, 55(8), 1997, pp. 4770-4784
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Particles & Fields
Journal title
Physical review. D. Particles and fields → ACNP
ISSN journal
05562821
Volume
55
Issue
8
Year of publication
1997
Pages
4770 - 4784
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-2821(1997)55:8<4770:PSOTQC>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
The conformal factor of the spacetime metric becomes dynamical due to the trace anomaly of matter fields. Its dynamics is described by an ef fective action which we quantize by canonical methods on the Einstein universe RxS(3). We find an infinite tower of discrete stales which sa tisfy the constraints or quantum diffeomorphism invariance. These phys ical states are in one-to-one correspondence with operators constructe d by integrating integer powers of the Ricci scalar.