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Effective action in quantum gravity
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It is argued that the effective action theory may be regarded as a phenomenological theory describing a certain class of measurements irrespective of the nature of fundamental quantum objects. The effective action in quantum field theory is discussed in detail and used as a guide. A connection between the effective field and observables is established. The approach is applied to the gravitational collapse problem. A procedure for building a basis of non-local gravitational invariants is described and a result for the vacuum radiation in a spherically symmetric in-state is presented. A conclusion about breakdown of measurements at the Planck scale is revised.
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- Authors
- Vilkovisky, G. A.
- Venue
- Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 1992-04-01
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 895-903
- ISSN
- 0264-9381 (ISSN-L)
- 1361-6382
- OpenAlex
- W1982428221
- Cited by
- 990
- References
- 20
- FWCI
- 22.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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