Quantizing the non-linear graviton

DOI10.1007/S00220-023-04828-0arXiv2208.12701MaRDI QIDQ6076996FDOQ6076996

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Publication date: 17 October 2023

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider holomorphic Poisson-BF theory on twistor space. Classically, this describes self-dual Einstein gravity on space-time, but at the quantum level it is plagued by an anomaly. The anomaly corresponds to the fact that integrability of the self-dual vacuum Einstein equations does not survive in self-dual quantum gravity. We compute the anomaly polynomials in the Poisson-BF theory, as well as in this theory coupled to a holomorphic BF theory on twistor space describing self-dual Yang-Mills. We show that all anomalies may be cancelled by further coupling to a twistor field representing a type of axion on space-time. When the twistor anomalies are cancelled, all $ngeq4$-pt amplitudes vanish and integrability is restored.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.12701

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Holomorphic symplectic varieties, hyper-Kähler varieties (14J42)

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