Non-minimal tinges of unimodular gravity
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Publication:1995080
DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2020)041zbMATH Open1454.83038arXiv2006.06698MaRDI QIDQ1995080FDOQ1995080
Authors: Mario Herrero-Valea, Raquel Santos-Garcia 
Publication date: 18 February 2021
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Unimodular Gravity is normally assumed to be equivalent to General Relativity for all matters but the character of the Cosmological Constant. Here we discuss this equivalence in the presence of a non-minimally coupled scalar field. We show that when we consider gravitation to be dynamical in a QFT sense, quantum corrections can distinguish both theories if the non-minimal coupling is non-vanishing. In order to show this, we construct a path integral formulation of Unimodular Gravity, fixing the complicated gauge invariance of the theory and computing all one-loop divergences. We find a combination of the couplings in the Lagrangian to which we can assign a physical meaning. It tells whether quantum gravitational phenomena can be ignored or not at a given energy scale. Its renormalization group flow differs depending on if it is computed in General Relativity or Unimodular Gravity.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06698
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