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Gravitational Phase Transitions in Infrared Quantum Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-17 v1

Abstract

The conformal anomaly induced sector of four-dimensional quantum gravity (infrared quantum gravity) ---which has been introduced by Antoniadis and Mottola--- is here studied on a curved fiducial background. The one-loop effective potential for the effective conformal factor theory is calculated with accuracy, including terms linear in the curvature. It is proven that a curvature induced phase transition can actually take place. An estimation of the critical curvature for different choices of the parameters of the theory is given.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9211008,
  title  = {Gravitational Phase Transitions in Infrared Quantum Gravity},
  author = {E. Elizalde and S. D. Odintsov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9211008},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pages, LaTeX file, 3 figures (not included), HUPD-92-10, UB-ECM-PF 92/29

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