GAUGE DEPENDENCE OF THE EFFECTIVE AVERAGE ACTION IN EINSTEIN GRAVITY

DOI10.1142/S0217751X98000263zbMATH Open0921.53047arXivhep-th/9612019OpenAlexW3102597661MaRDI QIDQ4259595FDOQ4259595

Authors: Sven Falkenberg, Sergei D. Odintsov 

Publication date: 2 September 1999

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the gauge dependence of the effective average action Gamma_k and Newtonian gravitational constant using the RG equation for Gamma_k. Then we truncate the space of action functionals to get a solution of this equation. We solve the truncated evolution equation for the Einstein gravity in the De Sitter background for a general gauge parameter alpha and obtain a system of equations for the cosmological and the Newtonian constants. Analyzing the running of the gravitational constant we find that the Newtonian constant depends strongly on the gauge parameter. This leads to the appearance of antiscreening and screening behavior of the quantum gravity. The resolution of the gauge dependence problem is suggested. For physical gauges like the Landau-De Witt gauge the Newtonian constant shows an antiscreening.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9612019

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zbMATH Keywords

effective average actiongauge dependenceNewtonian gravitational constantgauge dependence problemantiscreening behaviorspace of action functionals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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