Non minimal string corrections to supergravity: Towards an effective action in quantum gravity.

Title: Non minimal string corrections to supergravity: Towards an effective action in quantum gravity.
Identifier: AAI3213168
identifier: 3213168
Creator: O'Reilly, Dermot.
Contributor: Adviser: Sultan M. Catto
Date: 2006
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Physics, Elementary Particles and High Energy
Abstract: In Part I we study the theory of string corrected D=10, N=1 Supergravity to second order in the string slope parameter. We establish a procedure for solving the Bianchi identities to second order and we propose a candidate for the so called X tensor predicted to be necessary for finding the solution. We show that this X tensor in conjunction with this procedure succeeds in solving the long standing problem of closure in the H sector and Torsion sector Bianchi Identities. In part II we find the effective action for a scalar field on curved spacetime and the accompanying renormalization group equations.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.

Media: Non minimal string corrections to supergravity: Towards an effective action in quantum gravity.