Vacuum Effective Actions and Mass-Dependent Renormalization in Curved Space

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This paper reviews computed non-local effective action form-factors of semiclassical gravity in two and four dimensions and their importance for constructing mass-dependent beta functions of gravitational couplings.

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We review past and present results on the non-local form-factors of the effective action of semiclassical gravity in two and four dimensions computed by means of a covariant expansion of the heat kernel up to the second order in the curvatures. We discuss the importance of these form-factors in the construction of mass-dependent beta functions for the Newton's constant and the other gravitational couplings.

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