Quantum Mechanical Breaking of Local GL(4) Invariance
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✦ hep-th
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invarianceeffectivelocalpotentialquantumscalarvierbeinbreaking
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We consider the gravitational coupling of a scalar field, in a reformulation of General Relativity exhibiting local GL(4) invariance at the classical level. We compute the one-loop contribution of the scalar to the quantum effective potential of the vierbein and find that it does not have GL(4) invariance. The minima of the effective potential occur for a vierbein which is proportional to the unit matrix.
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