Boris L. Altshuler
Ph.D., Senior Researcher
phone: (499)135-8339, E-mail: altshul@lpi.ru
 
Classical and quantum gravity, cosmology, quantum field theory.

Main results:
an integral formulation of the Einstein equations, calculation of the gauge field interaction constant in the Kaluza-Klein higher-dimensional theory with R2 terms, showing possibility of inflation without any special scalar field for models with nonlinear dynamics of the Born-Infeld type, demonstrating of the phenomenon of quantum repulsion from the mass shell in quantum theories with constraints, in particular in the minisuperspace models of quantum gravity.

The current research interests cover the quantum effective action method as a tool to investigate peculiarities of the classical limit of quantum theories with constrains, specifically that of quantum cosmology.
 

Last updated: July 23, 1998