Resummation and Higher Order Renormalization in 4D Quantum Gravity

DOI10.1143/PTP.108.399zbMATH Open1043.81050arXivhep-th/0203250OpenAlexW3103249775MaRDI QIDQ4450031FDOQ4450031

Ken-Ji Hamada

Publication date: 15 February 2004

Published in: Progress of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Higher order renormalization in 4D quantum gravity is carried out using dimensional regularization with great care concerning the conformal-mode dependence. In this regularization, resummation can be automatically carried out without making an assumption like that of David, Distler and Kawai. In this paper we consider a model of 4D quantum gravity coupled to QED. Resummation inevitably implies a four-derivative quantum gravity. The renormalizability is directly checked up to $O(e_r^6)$ and $O(t_r^2)$, where $e_r$ and $t_r$ are the running coupling constants of QED and the traceless gravitational mode. There is no other running coupling constant in our model. The conformal mode is treated exactly, which means it is unrenormalized. It is found that Hathrell's results are included in our results. As a by-product, it is found that a higher-order gravitational correction to the beta function of QED is negative. An advantage of our model is that in the very high-energy regime, it closely resembles exactly solvable 2D quantum gravity. Thus, we can study physical states of 4D quantum gravity in this regime in parallel to those of 2D quantum gravity, which can be described with diffeomorphism invariant composite fields.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0203250

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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