Interactive quadratic gravity

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02635-7zbMATH Open0998.83037arXivhep-th/0209093MaRDI QIDQ700820FDOQ700820

Apostolos Kuiroukidis, K. Kleidis, Demetrios Papadopoulos

Publication date: 9 October 2002

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

Abstract: A quadratic semiclassical theory, regarding the interaction of gravity with a massive scalar quantum field, is considered in view of the renormalizable energy-momentum tensor in a multi-dimensional curved spacetime. According to it, a self-consistent coupling between the square curvature term R^{2} and the quantum field Phi should be introduced in order to yield the "correct" renormalizable energy-momentum tensor in quadratic gravity theories. The subsequent interaction discards any higher-order derivative terms from the gravitational field equations, but, in the expence, it introduces a geometric source term in the wave equation for the quantum field. Unlike the conformal coupling case (RPhi ^{2}), this term does not represent an additional "mass" and, therefore, the quantum field interacts with gravity not only through its mass (or energy) content (~Phi ^{2}), but also, in a more generic way (R^{2}Phi). Within this context, we propose a general method to obtain mode-solutions for the quantum field, by means of the associated Green's function in an anisotropic six-dimensional background.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0209093

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zbMATH Keywords

semiclassical theorymassive scalar quantum fieldrenormalizable energy-momentum tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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