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Nonperturbative late time asymptotics for heat kernel in gravity theory
Recently proposed nonlocal and nonperturbative late time behavior of the heat
kernel is generalized to curved spacetimes. Heat kernel trace asymptotics is
dominated by two terms one of which represents a trivial covariantization of
the flat-space result and another one is given by the Gibbons-Hawking integral
over asymptotically-flat infinity. Nonlocal terms of the effective action
generated by this asymptotics might underly long- distance modifications of the
Einstein theory motivated by the cosmological constant problem. New mechanisms
of the cosmological constant induced by infrared effects of matter and graviton
loops are briefly discussed.Comment: 22 pages, LaTeX, final version, to be published in Phys. Rev.