A new theory for the conformal factor in R-gravity is developed. The infrared phase of this theory, which follows from the one-loop renormalization group equations for the whole quantum R-gravity theory is described. The one-loop effective potential for the conformal factor is found explicitly and a mechanism for inducing Einstein gravity at the minimum of the effective potential for the confor...

An image processing technique called the cellular neural network (CNN) approach is used in this study to locate geological features giving rise to gravity anomalies such as faults or the boundary of two geologic zones. CNN is a stochastic image processing technique based on template optimization using the neighborhood relationships of cells. These cells can be characterized by a functional bloc...

We explore the connection between anti-deSitter supergravity and gauge theory, in the context of bound states of many D1 and D5 branes. The near-horizon AdS3 supergravity describes the identity sector of the conformal field theory produced by the brane dynamics. A variant of anomaly inflow (for the 2d conformal anomaly) is involved. Dynamical matter fields on AdS3 couple to the chiral ring and ...

We consider the semiclassical dynamics of CGHS black holes with a Weyl-invariant effective action for conformal matter. The trace anomaly of Polyakov effective action is converted into the Virasoro anomaly thus leading to the same flux of Hawking radiation. The covariance of semiclassical equations can be restored through a non-local redefinition of the metric-dilaton fields. The resulting theo...

Weyl Anomaly in the dilaton-scalar system in 2 dimensional gravity is examined. Discrepancy in recent results by some authors is clarified. We take the heat-kernel regularization for the ultraviolet divergences. In the present approach, the Weyl anomaly depends on the choice of an 2nd order differetial operator for the regularization. We have the freedom of its choice due to the arbitrariness o...

In this study we chronicle the development of the Australian-Antarctic discordance (AAD), the crenelated portion of the Southeast Indian Ridge between -120 ø and 128øE, since anomaly 6y time (19 Ma). We reconstruct satellite-derived marine gravity fields and depth anomalies at selected times by first removing anomalies overlying seafloor younger than the selected age, and then rotating the rema...