Background scale independence in quantum gravity

DOI10.1093/PTEP/PTX020zbMATH Open1477.83035arXiv1701.01506OpenAlexW3105380523MaRDI QIDQ3379683FDOQ3379683

Authors: Nobuyoshi Ohta 

Publication date: 27 September 2021

Published in: PTEP. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the background scale independence in single-metric approximation to the functional renormalization group equation (FRGE) for quantum gravity and show that it is possible to formulate it without using higher-derivative gauge fixing in arbitrary dimensions if we adopt the Landau gauge and suitable cutoff scheme. We discuss this problem for both the linear and exponential splits of the metric into background and fluctuations. The obtained modified Ward identity for the global rescalings of the background metric can be combined with the FRGE to give a manifestly scale-invariant solution. An explicit example of the FRGE is given for four-dimensional $f(R)$ gravity in this framework.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01506

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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