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arxiv: hep-th/0011064 · v3 · submitted 2000-11-09 · ✦ hep-th

Geometrization of the Quantum Effects

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keywords conformalquantumstress-tensorcosmologicalfieldframemodeltrace
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We present a model in which the breackdown of conformal symmetry of a quantum stress-tensor due to the trace anomaly is related to a cosmological effect in a gravitational model. This is done by characterizing the traceless part of the quantum stress-tensor in terms of the stress-tensor of a conformal invariant classical scalar field. We introduce a conformal frame in which the anomalous trace is identified with a cosmological constant. In this conformal frame we establish the Einstein field equations by connecting the quantum stress-tensor with the large scale distribution of matter in the universe.

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