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Quantum Brans-Dicke Gravity in Euclidean Path Integral Formulation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The conformal structure of Brans-Dicke gravity action is carefully studied. It is discussed that Brans-Dicke gravity action has definitely no conformal invariance. It is shown, however, that this lack of conformal invariance enables us to demonstrate that Brans-Dicke theory appears to have a better short-distance behavior than Einstein gravity as far as Euclidean path integral formulation for quantum gravity is concerned.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9706004,
  title  = {Quantum Brans-Dicke Gravity in Euclidean Path Integral Formulation},
  author = {Hongsu Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9706004},
  year   = {2007}
}

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11 pages, Revtex