A new gravitational action for the trace anomaly

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2023.138031zbMATH Open1529.83030arXiv2301.13265OpenAlexW4380853298MaRDI QIDQ6173402FDOQ6173402

Authors: Gregory Gabadadze 

Publication date: 21 July 2023

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The question of building a local diff-invariant effective gravitational action for the trace anomaly is reconsidered. General Relativity (GR) combined with the existing action for the trace anomaly is an inconsistent low energy effective field theory. This issue is addressed by extending GR into a certain scalar-tensor theory, which preserves the GR trace anomaly equation, up to higher order corrections. The extension introduces a new mass scale -- assumed to be below the Planck scale -- that governs four high dimensional terms in a local diff-invariant trace anomaly action. Such terms can be kept, while an infinite number of Planck-suppressed invariants are neglected. The resulting theory maintains two derivative equations of motion. In a certain approximation it reduces to the conformal Gallileon, which could have physical consequences.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13265

zbMATH Keywords

conformal Gallileon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Trace rings and invariant theory (associative rings and algebras) (16R30) Gravitational waves (83C35) Methods of noncommutative geometry in general relativity (83C65) Conformal structures on manifolds (53C18) Effective quantum field theories (81T12)

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