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The Embedding Model of Induced Gravity with Bosonic Sources

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-02-03 v2

Abstract

We consider a theory in which spacetime is an n-dimensional surface VnV_n embedded in an NN-dimensional space VNV_N. In order to enable also the Kaluza-Klein approach we admit n>4n > 4. The dynamics is given by the minimal surface action in a curved embedding space. The latter is taken, in our specific model, as being a conformally flat space. In the quantization of the model we start from a generalization of the Howe-Tucker action which depends on the embedding variables ηa(x){\eta}^a (x) and the (intrinsic) induced metric gμνg_{\mu \nu} on VnV_n. If in the path integral we perform only the functional integration over ηa(x){\eta}^a (x), we obtain the effective action which functionally depends on gμνg_{\mu \nu} and contains the Ricci scalar RR and its higher orders R2R^2 etc. But due to our special choice of the conformal factor in VNV_N enterig our original action, it turns out that the effective action contains also the source term. The latter is in general that of a pp-dimensional membrane (pp-brane); in particular we consider the case of a point particle. Thus, starting from the basic fields ηa(x){\eta}^a (x), we induce not only the kinetic term for gμνg_{\mu \nu}, but also the "matter" source term.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9511020,
  title  = {The Embedding Model of Induced Gravity with Bosonic Sources},
  author = {Matej Pavsic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9511020},
  year   = {2008}
}

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