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Gravitational action for a massive Majorana fermion in 2d quantum gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-01-18 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We compute the gravitational action of a free massive Majorana fermion coupled to two-dimensional gravity on compact Riemann surfaces of arbitrary genus. The structure is similar to the case of the massive scalar. The small-mass expansion of the gravitational yields the Liouville action at zeroth order, and we can identify the Mabuchi action at first order. While the massive Majorana action is a conformal deformation of the massless Majorana CFT, we find an action different from the one given by the David-Distler-Kawai (DDK) ansatz.

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@article{arxiv.2308.08342,
  title  = {Gravitational action for a massive Majorana fermion in 2d quantum gravity},
  author = {Corinne de Lacroix and Harold Erbin and Vincent Lahoche},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.08342},
  year   = {2024}
}

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41 pages; v2: match published version