Graviton propagation and vacuum polarization in curved space

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2011)096zbMATH Open1303.83014arXiv1106.4675MaRDI QIDQ489546FDOQ489546

Authors: Ross Stanley, Timothy J. Hollowood 

Publication date: 20 January 2015

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

Abstract: The effects of vacuum polarization arising from loops of massive scalar particles on graviton propagation in curved space are considered. Physically, they are due to curvature induced tidal forces acting on the cloud of virtual scalar particles surrounding the graviton. The effects are tractable in a WKB and large mass limit and the results can be written as an effective refractive index for the graviton modes with both a real and imaginary part. The imaginary part of the refractive index is a curvature induced contribution to the wavefunction renormalization of the graviton in real affine time and can have the effect of dressing or un-dressing the graviton. The real part of the refractive index increases logarithmically at high frequency as long as the null energy condition is satisfied by the background.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.4675

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zbMATH Keywords

models of quantum gravityPenrose limit and pp-wave background

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Feynman diagrams (81T18) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

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