I'm trying to go from the low-energy effective action in the string-frame to the corresponding action in the Einstein frame. The action in the string frame has the form
S=1(2π)7l8s∫d10x√−γ[e−2Φ(R[γμν]+4(∇Φ)2)−12|Fp+2|2]
Here γμν is the string-frame metric, and R[γμν] is the usual Einstein curvature for this metric, which appears in the first (dilaton corrected) Einstein-Hilbert like term in the action.
The process is two fold:
Introduce a field ϕ for fluctuations eΦ=gseϕ (Φ in this language is the dilaton).
Weyl rescale the metric gμν=e−ϕ/2γμν.
The second step ought to yield the following relationship between the scalar curvatures:
R[γμν]=e−ϕ/2[R[gμν]−92∇2ϕ−92(∇ϕ)2]
So my problem right now is to cleanly derive this curvature relationship, which is really a GR problem. One way to go about it is to start from the Christoffel symbols for g and show that they are equal to the Christoffel symbols for γ plus ϕ-dependent correction terms, then go the Riemann curvature tensor, and then finally to the Ricci tensor, in the usual canonical way.
However, I am hoping there's a faster way to to do this (vielbeins maybe? I can't think of a direct application) because the algebra in this standard procedure is quite tedious.
The general problem has a simple statement: how do you relate the curvature of a Weyl rescaled metric to its original curvature?
Answer
Let Ω2=expϕ/2 so that γ=Ω2g. Then we have the standard formula Rγ=Ω−2(Rg−2(n−1)ΔlnΩ−(n−2)(n−1)[∇lnΩ]2)
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