One-loop quantum gravity in the Einstein universe

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2015)193MaRDI QIDQ2636192zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ivan G. Avramidi, Samuel Collopy

Publication date 31 May 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.00929

zbMATH Keywords

differential and algebraic geometrymodels of quantum gravitynonperturbative effectsrenormalization group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We study quantum gravity with the Einstein-Hilbert action including the cosmological constant on the Euclidean Einstein universe $S^{1}imes{S}^3$. We compute exactly the spectra and the heat kernels of the relevant operators on $S^3$ and use these results to compute the heat trace of the graviton and ghost operators and the exact one-loop effective action on $S^{1}imes{S}^3$. We show that the system is unstable in the infrared limit due to the presence of the negative modes of the graviton and the ghost operators. We study the thermal properties of the model with the temperature $T=(2pi{a}_1{)}^{-1}$ determined by the radius $a_1$ of the circle $S^1$. We show that the heat capacity $C_v$ is well defined and behaves like $sim{T}^3$ in the high temperature limit and has a singularity of the type $sim(T-T_c{)}^{-1}$, indicating a second-order phase transition, with the critical temperature $T_c$ determined by the cosmological constant $Lambda$ and the radius $a$ of the sphere $S^3$. We also discuss some peculiar properties of the model such as the negative heat capacity as well as possible physical applications.

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