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Quantal Analysis of String-Inspired Lineal Gravity with Matter Fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We show that string-inspired lineal gravity interacting with matter fields cannot be Dirac-quantized owing to the well known anomaly in energy-momentum tensor commutators.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9405119,
  title  = {Quantal Analysis of String-Inspired Lineal Gravity with Matter Fields},
  author = {D. Cangemi and R. Jackiw},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9405119},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

15 pages, MIT-CTP-2300 -- UCLA/94/TEP/18, Revtex

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