Conformal Couplings in Induced Gravity

Abstract

It is found that the induced gravity with conformal couplings requires the conformal invariance in both classical and quantum levels for consistency. This is also true for the induced gravity with an extended conformal coupling interacting with torsion.

10 pages, Revtex3.0, to appear in General Relativity and Gravitation

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• Asymptotic Conformal Invariance of SU(2) and Standard Models in Curved Space-time

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