On the expansion of a quantum field theory around a topological sector

DOI10.1007/S10714-006-0378-YzbMATH Open1157.83325arXivgr-qc/0508106OpenAlexW2057072106MaRDI QIDQ995883FDOQ995883

Authors: Carlo Rovelli, Simone Speziale 

Publication date: 10 September 2007

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The idea of treating general relativistic theories in a perturbative expansion around a topological theory has been recently put forward in the quantum gravity literature. Here we investigate the viability of this idea, by applying it to conventional Yang--Mills theory on flat spacetime. We find that the expansion around the topological theory coincides with the usual expansion around the abelian theory, though the equivalence is non-trivial. In this context, the technique appears therefore to be viable, but not to bring particularly new insights. Some implications for gravity are discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0508106

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

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