Title

Dynamics of the Conformal Mode and Simplicial Gravity

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Simon Catterall, Syracuse UniversityFollow
Emil Mottola, Los Alamos National Laboratory
T. Bhattacharya, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Document Type

Article

Date

9-15-1998

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

We review the derivation of the Liouville action in 2DQG via the trace anomaly and emphasize how a similar approach can be used to derive an effective action describing the long wavelength dynamics of the conformal factor in 4D. In 2D we describe how to make an explicit connection between dynamical triangulations and this continuum theory, and present results which confirm the equivalance of the two approaches. By reconstructing a lattice conformal mode from DT simulations it should be possible to test this equivalence in 4D also.

Additional Information

LATTICE98(surfaces) More information at http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9809114

Recommended Citation

Catterall, Simon; Mottola, Emil; and Bhattacharya, T., "Dynamics of the Conformal Mode and Simplicial Gravity" (1998). Physics - All Scholarship. 475.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/475

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org

Creative Commons License

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