Recent results regarding affine quantum gravity

DOI10.1063/1.4739555zbMATH Open1283.83015arXiv1203.0691OpenAlexW3103464635MaRDI QIDQ2872253FDOQ2872253

Authors: J. R. Klauder 

Publication date: 14 January 2014

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recent progress in the quantization of nonrenormalizable scalar fields has found that a suitable non-classical modification of the ground state wave function leads to a result that eliminates term-by-term divergences that arise in a conventional perturbation analysis. After a brief review of both the scalar field story and the affine quantum gravity program, examination of the procedures used in the latter surprisingly shows an analogous formulation which already implies that affine quantum gravity is not plagued by divergences that arise in a standard perturbation study. Additionally, guided by the projection operator method to deal with quantum constraints, trial reproducing kernels are introduced that satisfy the diffeomorphism constraints. Furthermore, it is argued that the trial reproducing kernels for the diffeomorphism constraints may also satisfy the Hamiltonian constraint as well.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0691

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zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian constraintquantum constraintsaffine quantum gravityquantization of nonrenormalizable scalar fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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