Formally renormalisable gravitationally self interacting string models
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-04-15 v1
Abstract
It has recently been shown how the effect of the divergent part of the gravitational self interaction for a classical string model in 4 dimensions can be allowed for by a renormalisation of its stress energy tensor and in the elastic case a corresponding renormalisation of the off shell action. It is shown here that that it is possible to construct a new category of elastic string models for which this effect is describable as a renormalisation in the stricter ``formal'' sense, meaning that it only requires a rescaling of one of the fixed parameters characterising the model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9810178,
title = {Formally renormalisable gravitationally self interacting string models},
author = {Brandon Carter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9810178},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
8 pages Latex. Contrib. to proc. `Quantum gravity in the Southern Cone', Bariloche, Jan., 1998; accepted for publication in Int. J. Theoretical Physics