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General Treatment of All 2d Covariant Models

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

General matterless models of gravity include dilaton gravity, arbitrary powers in curvature, but also dynamical torsion. They are a special class of "Poisson-sigma-models" whose solutions are known completely, together with their general global structure. Beside the ordinary black hole, arbitrary singularity structures can be studied. It is also possible to derive an action "backwards", starting from a given manifold. The role of conservation laws, Noether charge and the quantization have been investigated. Scalar and fermionic matter fields may be included as well.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9612016,
  title  = {General Treatment of All 2d Covariant Models},
  author = {W. Kummer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9612016},
  year   = {2007}
}

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17 pages (latex file)