Ultraviolet-complete quantum field theories with fractional operators

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Abstract: We explore quantum field theories with fractional d'Alembertian Boxgamma. Both a scalar field theory with a derivative-dependent potential and gauge theory are strictly renormalizable for a fractional power 1<gammaleqslant2, super-renormalizable for gamma>2 and finite if one introduces killer operators. Unitarity is achieved by splitting the kinetic term into the product of massive fractional operators, eventually sending the masses to zero if so desired. Fractional quantum gravity is also discussed and found to be strictly renormalizable for 2leqslantgammaleqslant4 and super-renormalizable for gamma>4. To make it unitary, we combine the splitting procedure with a fractional generalization of the Anselmi-Piva prescription for fakeons. Among new technical results with wider applications, we highlight the Leibniz rule for arbitrary powers of the d'Alembertian and the K"all'en-Lehmann representation for a propagator with an arbitrary number of branch cuts.




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