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Comments on Anomaly Cancellations by Pole Subtractions and Ghost Instabilities with Gravity
We investigate some aspects of anomaly cancellation realized by the
subtraction of an anomaly pole, stressing on some of its properties in
superspace. In a local formulation these subtractions can be described in terms
of a physical scalar, an axion and related ghosts. They appear to be necessary
for the unitarization of the theory in the ultraviolet, but they may generate
an infrared instability of the corresponding effective action, signalled by
ghost condensation. In particular the subtraction of the superanomaly multiplet
by a pole in superspace is of dubious significance, due to the different nature
of the chiral and conformal anomalies. In turn, this may set more stringent
constraints on the coupling of supersymmetric theories to gravity.Comment: 18 pages. Revised version. To appear in "Classical and Quantum
Gravity
Cosmic perturbations with running G and Lambda
Cosmologies with running cosmological term (Lambda) and gravitational
Newton's coupling (G) may naturally be expected if the evolution of the
universe can ultimately be derived from the first principles of Quantum Field
Theory or String Theory. In this paper, we derive the general cosmological
perturbation equations for models with variable G and Lambda in which the
fluctuations in both variables are explicitly included. We demonstrate that, if
matter is covariantly conserved, the late growth of matter density
perturbations is independent of the wavenumber. Furthermore, if Lambda is
negligible at high redshifts and G varies slowly, we find that these
cosmologies produce a matter power spectrum with the same shape as that of the
concordance LCDM model, thus predicting the same basic features on structure
formation. Despite this shape indistinguishability, the free parameters of the
variable G and Lambda models can still be effectively constrained from the
observational bounds on the spectrum amplitude.Comment: Accepted in Classical and Quantum Gravity. One appendix on
perturbations in the Newtonian gauge added. Extended discussion and new
references