Liouville dressed weights and renormalization of spin in topologically massive gravity

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00466-5MaRDI QIDQ1366564zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors I. I. Kogan, Richard J. Szabo

Publication date 10 September 1997

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9703071

zbMATH Keywords

3D Lorentz group representationsAharonov Bohm scattering amplitudescoupling matter field couplinglocal conformal invariancenontrivial representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We examine the relations between observables in two- and three-dimensional quantum gravity by studying the coupling of topologically massive gravity to matter fields in non-trivial representations of the three-dimensional Lorentz group. We show that the gravitational renormalization of spin up to one-loop order in these theories reproduces the leading orders of the KPZ scaling relations for quantum Liouville theory. We demonstrate that the two-dimensional scaling dimensions can be computed from tree-level Aharonov-Bohm scattering amplitudes between the charged particles in the limit where the three-dimensional theory possesses local conformal invariance. We show how the three-dimensional description defines scale-dependent weights by computing the one-loop order anomalous magnetic moment of fermions in a background electromagnetic field due to the renormalization by topologically massive gravity. We also discuss some aspects concerning the different phases of three-dimensional quantum gravity and argue that the topological ones may be related to the branched polymer phase of two-dimensional quantum gravity.

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