English

Quantum Cylindrical Waves and Sigma Models

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We analyze cylindrical gravitational waves in vacuo with general polarization and develop a viewpoint complementary to that presented recently by Niedermaier showing that the auxiliary sigma model associated with this family of waves is not renormalizable in the standard perturbative sense.

Cite

@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0402096,
  title  = {Quantum Cylindrical Waves and Sigma Models},
  author = {J. Fernando Barbero G. and Guillermo A. Mena Marugan and Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0402096},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages (DIN A4), accepted in International Journal of Modern Physics D