Geometrized quantum Galileons

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/02/031zbMATH Open1489.83089arXiv1909.07111OpenAlexW3100502664MaRDI QIDQ5067863FDOQ5067863

Authors: Lavinia Heisenberg, Christian F. Steinwachs 

Publication date: 4 April 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the renormalization structure of the scalar Galileon model in flat spacetime by calculating the one-loop divergences in a closed geometric form. The geometric formulation is based on the definition of an effective Galileon metric and allows to apply known heat-kernel techniques. The result for the one-loop divergences is compactly expressed in terms of curvature invariants of the effective Galileon metric and corresponds to a resummation of the divergent one-loop contributions of all n-point functions. The divergent part of the one-loop effective action therefore serves as generating functional for arbitrary n-point counterterms. We discuss our result within the Galileon effective field theory and give a brief outlook on extensions to more general Galileon models in curved spacetime.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07111

zbMATH Keywords

modified gravityquantum field theory on curved space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat kernel (35K08) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Effective quantum field theories (81T12) Mathematical modeling or simulation for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-10)

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