Gravitational dressing of the renormalization group
- 15 November 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 71 (20) , 3243-3246
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.71.3243
Abstract
We study the gravitational dressing of renormalizable two-dimensional field theories. Our main result is that the one-loop β function is finitely renormalized by the factor (k+2)/(k+1), where k is the central charge of the gravitational SL(2,R) current algebra.Keywords
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