Quantum spin dynamics (QSD): V. Quantum gravity as the natural regulator of the Hamiltonian constraint of matter quantum field theories
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DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/5/012zbMATH Open0945.83016arXivgr-qc/9705019OpenAlexW2018885617MaRDI QIDQ4936775FDOQ4936775
Authors: Thomas Thiemann 
Publication date: 1 February 2000
Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: It is an old speculation in physics that, once the gravitational field is successfully quantized, it should serve as the natural regulator of infrared and ultraviolet singularities that plague quantum field theories in a background metric. We demonstrate that this idea is implemented in a precise sense within the framework of four-dimensional canonical Lorentzian quantum gravity in the continuum. Specifically, we show that the Hamiltonian of the standard model supports a representation in which finite linear combinations of Wilson loop functionals around closed loops, as well as along open lines with fermionic and Higgs field insertions at the end points are densely defined operators. This Hamiltonian, surprisingly, does not suffer from any singularities, it is completely finite without renormalization. This property is shared by string theory. In contrast to string theory, however, we are dealing with a particular phase of the standard model coupled to gravity which is entirely non-perturbatively defined and second quantized.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9705019
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