Causality constraints on corrections to the graviton three-point coupling

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2016)020zbMath1388.83093arXiv1407.5597MaRDI QIDQ1638226

José D. Edelstein, Alexander Zhiboedov, Xián O. Camanho, Juan M. Maldacena

Publication date: 12 June 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.5597

zbMATH Keywords

AdS-CFT correspondence classical theories of gravity models of quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

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