On-Shell Flow
High Energy Physics - Theory
2022-11-09 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
In this work, the problem of constructing geometric flow equations that preserve Einstein field equations for the spacetime metric is addressed. After having briefly discussed the main features of Ricci flow, the on-shell flow equations for a system comprised of a dynamical metric and a set of matter fields are constructed. Then, two examples in which the matter content is just a single, self-interacting scalar field are analysed in detail, imposing the geometric flow equations to be the action-induced ones. In conclusion, an explicit connection to the Swampland Distance Conjecture is proposed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2211.04231,
title = {On-Shell Flow},
author = {Davide De Biasio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.04231},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
72 pages, 18 figures