Coleman-Weinberg effect in quantum gravity
- 1 September 1991
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Vol. 8 (9) , L193-L197
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/8/9/001
Abstract
The authors describe an application of the method of the effective potential to a model theory of gravity with independent vierbein and O(1, 3) connection. Adopting a kind of mean field approximation, they find that a Coleman-Weinberg effects occurs: radiative corrections due to loops of the gauge field generate an effective potential for the vierbein whose absolute minimum corresponds to Minkowski space.Keywords
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