Experts has a new look! Let us know what you think of the updates.

Provide feedback
Home
Scholarly Works
Massive-scalar effective actions on anti-de Sitter...
Journal article

Massive-scalar effective actions on anti-de Sitter space-time

Abstract

Closed forms are derived for the effective actions for free, massive spinless fields in anti-de Sitter space-times in arbitrary dimensions. The results have simple expressions in terms of elementary functions (for odd dimensions) or multiple Gamma functions (for even dimensions). We use these to argue against the quantum validity of Cruz' recently proposed duality relating such theories with differing masses and cosmological constants.PACS Nos. …

Authors

Kamela M; Burgess CP

Journal

Canadian Journal of Physics, Vol. 77, No. 2, pp. 85–99

Publisher

Canadian Science Publishing

Publication Date

June 1, 1999

DOI

10.1139/p98-065

ISSN

0008-4204