2D quantum gravity at three loops: a counterterm investigation

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2015.12.013zbMATH Open1332.83043arXiv1504.01738OpenAlexW318658549MaRDI QIDQ254973FDOQ254973

Authors: Lætitia Leduc, Adel Bilal 

Publication date: 8 March 2016

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

Abstract: We analyse the divergences of the three-loop partition function at fixed area in 2D quantum gravity. Considering the Liouville action in the Kahler formalism, we extract the coefficient of the leading divergence in $simALambd{a}^2(lnALambd{a}^2{)}^2$. This coefficient is non-vanishing. We discuss the counterterms one can and must add and compute their precise contribution to the partition function. This allows us to conclude that every local and non-local divergence in the partition function can be balanced by local counterterms, with the only exception of the maximally non-local divergence $(lnALambd{a}^2{)}^3$. Yet, this latter is computed and does cancel between the different three-loop diagrams. Thus, requiring locality of the counterterms is enough to renormalize the partition function. Finally, the structure of the new counterterms strongly suggests that they can be understood as a renormalization of the measure action.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.01738

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Feynman diagrams (81T18) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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