Ron Kantowski
| Title: | Professor |
| Education: | B.S. University of Texas, 1962 |
| Ph.D. University of Texas, 1966 | |
| Office: | 337 Nielsen Hall |
| Phone: | 405-325-3961, ext. 36337 |
| Email: | kantowski@nhn.ou.edu |
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My current interests are in cosmology and effective actions for certain topological quantum field theories and Kaluza-Klein spaces. I have recently been working on the quantitative effects of mass inhomogeneities on determinations of the cosmological parameters. With collaborators I have found analytic expressions for the Hubble curve for partially filled beam observations in standard cosmology. With collaborators I am also using the background field method to compute effective actions for certain topological quantum field theories and Kaluza-Klein spaces. To ensure gauge independence of our loop expansions, we have found it necessary to use the effective action of Vilkovisky-DeWitt.
