RST model

The Russo–Susskind–Thorlacius model^[1] or RST model in short is a modification of the CGHS model to take care of conformal anomalies. In the CGHS model, if we include Faddeev-Popov ghosts to gauge-fix diffeomorphisms in the conformal gauge, they contribute an anomaly of -24. Each matter field contributes an anomaly of 1. So, unless N=24, we will have gravitational anomalies. To the CGHS action

S_{{{\text{CGHS}}}}={\frac {1}{2\pi }}\int d^{2}x\,{\sqrt {-g}}\left\{e^{{-2\phi }}\left[R+4\left(\nabla \phi \right)^{2}+4\lambda ^{2}\right]-\sum _{{i=1}}^{N}{\frac {1}{2}}\left(\nabla f_{i}\right)^{2}\right\}

, the following term

S_{{{\text{RST}}}}=-{\frac {\kappa }{8\pi }}\int d^{2}x\,{\sqrt {-g}}\left[R{\frac {1}{\nabla ^{2}}}R-2\phi R\right]

is added, where κ is either $(N-24)/12$ or $N/12$ depending upon whether ghosts are considered. The nonlocal term leads to nonlocality. In the conformal gauge,

S_{{{\text{RST}}}}=-{\frac {\kappa }{\pi }}\int dx^{+}\,dx^{-}\left[\partial _{+}\rho \partial _{-}\rho +\phi \partial _{+}\partial _{-}\rho \right]

It might appear as if the theory is local in the conformal gauge, but this overlooks the fact that the Raychaudhuri equations are still nonlocal.

References

↑ Russo, Jorge; Susskind, Leonard; Thorlacius, Lárus (15 Oct 1992). "The Endpoint of Hawking Evaporation". Physical Review. D. 46 (8): 3444–3449. arXiv:hep-th/9206070. Bibcode:1992PhRvD..46.3444R. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.46.3444. Archived from the original on 17 June 1992.

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