Revisiting the renormalization of Einstein–Maxwell theory at one-loop

DOI10.1093/PTEP/PTAA167zbMATH Open1528.83008arXiv1807.11595OpenAlexW3108338291MaRDI QIDQ6132770FDOQ6132770

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Publication date: 14 July 2023

Published in: PTEP. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In a series of recent works based on foliation-based quantization in which renormalizability has been achieved for the physical sector of the theory, we have shown that the use of the standard graviton propagator interferes, due to the presence of the trace mode, with the 4D covariance. A subtlety in the background field method also requires careful handling. This status of the matter motivated us to revisit an Einstein-scalar system in one of the sequels. Continuing the endeavors, we revisit the one-loop renormalization of an Einstein-Maxwell system in the present work. The systematic renormalization of the cosmological and Newton's constants is carried out by applying the refined background field method. One-loop beta function of the vector coupling constant is explicitly computed and compared with the literature. The longstanding problem of gauge choice-dependence of the effective action is addressed and the manner in which the gauge-choice independence is restored in the present framework is discussed. The formalism also sheds light on background independent analysis. The renormalization involves a metric field redefinition originally introduced by `t Hooft; with the field redefinition the theory should be predictive.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11595

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis of variance and covariance (ANOVA) (62J10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Complex vector fields, holomorphic foliations, (mathbb{C})-actions (32M25) Renormalization of holomorphic dynamical systems (37F25) Propagation of singularities; initial value problems on manifolds (58J47)

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