We study 2d phiF gauge theories with the objective to understand, also at the quantum level, the emergence of induced gravity. The wave functionals - representing the eigenstates of a vanishing flat potential - are obtained in the phi representation. The composition of the space they describe is then analyzed: the state corresponding to the singlet representation of the gauge group describes a topological universe. For other representations a metric which is invariant under the residual gauge group is induced, apart from possible topological obstructions. Being inherited from the group metric, it is rather rigid.

On induced gravity in 2-d topological theories / Amati, D.; Elitzur, S.; Rabinovici, E.. - In: NUCLEAR PHYSICS. B. - ISSN 0550-3213. - 418:1-2(1994), pp. 45-80. [10.1016/0550-3213(94)90238-0]

On induced gravity in 2-d topological theories

Amati, D.;
1994-01-01

Abstract

We study 2d phiF gauge theories with the objective to understand, also at the quantum level, the emergence of induced gravity. The wave functionals - representing the eigenstates of a vanishing flat potential - are obtained in the phi representation. The composition of the space they describe is then analyzed: the state corresponding to the singlet representation of the gauge group describes a topological universe. For other representations a metric which is invariant under the residual gauge group is induced, apart from possible topological obstructions. Being inherited from the group metric, it is rather rigid.
1994
418
1-2
45
80
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9312003
Amati, D.; Elitzur, S.; Rabinovici, E.
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