Nonlocal gravity with worldline inversion symmetry

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2020)003zbMATH Open1434.83091arXiv1911.06697WikidataQ126394693 ScholiaQ126394693MaRDI QIDQ2185235FDOQ2185235

Anupam Mazumdar, S. A. Abel, Luca Buoninfante

Publication date: 4 June 2020

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

Abstract: We construct a quadratic curvature theory of gravity whose graviton propagator around the Minkowski background respects wordline inversion symmetry, the particle approximation to modular invariance in string theory. This symmetry automatically yields a corresponding gravitational theory that is nonlocal, with the action containing infinite order differential operators. As a consequence, despite being a higher order derivative theory, it is ghost-free and has no degrees of freedom besides the massless spin-$2$ graviton of Einstein's general relativity. By working in the linearised regime we show that the point-like singularities that afflict the (local) Einstein's theory are smeared out.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.06697

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zbMATH Keywords

effective field theoriesmodels of quantum gravityspacetime singularitiesstring field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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