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- Title
The continuum limit of quantum gravity at first order in perturbation theory.
- Authors
Mitchell, Alex; Morris, Tim R.
- Abstract
The Wilsonian renormalization group (RG) properties of the conformal factor of the metric are profoundly altered by the fact that it has a wrong-sign kinetic term. The result is a novel perturbative continuum limit for quantum gravity, which is however non-perturbative in ħ. The ultraviolet part of the renormalized trajectory lies outside the diffeomorphism invariant subspace, entering this subspace only in the infrared, below a dynamically generated amplitude suppression scale. Interactions are dressed with coefficient functions of the conformal factor, their form being determined by the RG. In the ultraviolet, the coefficient functions are parametrised by an infinite number of underlying couplings. Choosing these couplings appropriately, the coefficient functions trivialise on entering the diffeomorphism invariant subspace. Here, dynamically generated effective diffeomorphism couplings emerge, including Newton's constant. In terms of the Legendre effective action, we establish the continuum limit to first order, characterising the most general form of such coefficient functions so as to verify universality.
- Subjects
PERTURBATION theory; RENORMALIZATION group; QUANTUM gravity; MATHEMATICAL continuum
- Publication
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020, Vol 2020, Issue 6, p1
- ISSN
1126-6708
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/JHEP06(2020)138