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Gravitational Vacuum Polarization: Decoupling and the Conformal Anomaly
Emil Mottola
A compact form of the stress tensor correlation function of a quantum scalar field of arbitrary mass and curvature coupling is presented, with…
Weyl Cohomology and the Effective Action for Conformal Anomalies
Pawel O. Mazur, Emil Mottola
We present a general method of deriving the effective action for conformal anomalies in any even dimension, which satisfies the Wess-Zumino consistency condition by construction. T…
The Conformal Mode in 2D Simplicial Gravity
S. Catterall, E. Mottola
We verify that summing 2D DT geometries correctly reproduces the Polyakov action for the conformal mode, including all ghost contributions, at large volumes. The Gaussian action is…
Periodic Instantons in SU(2) Yang-Mills-Higgs Theory
G. Bonini, S. Habib, E. Mottola +3
The properties of periodic instanton solutions of the classical SU(2) gauge theory with a Higgs doublet field are described analytically at low energies, and found numerically for…
Criticality and Scaling in 4D Quantum Gravity
I. Antoniadis, P. O. Mazur, E. Mottola
We present a simple argument which determines the critical value of the anomaly coefficient in four dimensional conformal factor quantum gravity, at which a phase transition betwee…
Functional Integration Over Geometries
Emil Mottola
The geometric construction of the functional integral over coset spaces is reviewed. The inner product on the cotangent space of infinitesimal deformations of $…