ONE-LOOP FINITE TEMPERATURE EFFECTIVE ACTION FOR COMPOSITE FIELDS IN CURVED SPACE
1995 ◽
Vol 10
(03)
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pp. 389-420
Keyword(s):
We obtain high temperature results for the one-loop effective action for composite fields in interaction with an Abelian gauge field and minimally coupled to gravity in a curved background space-time, using the Vilkovisky-DeWitt approach, by making a local expansion in the Riemann tensor and its derivatives. We also give results for the fields minimally coupled to gravity in an arbitrary curved background space-time at zero temperature, and for the case where the fields are nonminimally coupled to gravity in Euclidean de Sitter space. The results obtained are gauge-invariant and gauge-condition-independent on-shell as well as off-shell.
1988 ◽
Vol 03
(14)
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pp. 1391-1399
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1988 ◽
Vol 03
(08)
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pp. 1859-1870
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1992 ◽
Vol 439
(1905)
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pp. 103-113
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1990 ◽
Vol 05
(20)
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pp. 1599-1604
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1998 ◽
Vol 117
(1)
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pp. 1208-1213
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