English

2D quantum gravity on compact Riemann surfaces with non-conformal matter

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-03-08 v2

Abstract

We study the gravitational action induced by coupling two-dimensional non-conformal, massive matter to gravity on a compact Riemann surface. We express this gravitational action in terms of finite and well-defined quantities for any value of the mass. A small-mass expansion gives back the Liouville action in the massless limit, the Mabuchi and Aubin-Yau actions to first order, as well as an infinite series of higher-order contributions written in terms of purely geometric quantities.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1606.01901,
  title  = {2D quantum gravity on compact Riemann surfaces with non-conformal matter},
  author = {Adel Bilal and Laetitia Leduc},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.01901},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

15 pages, minor corrections

R2 v1 2026-06-22T14:18:59.245Z