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A Chiral Perturbation Expansion for Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

A formulation of Einstein gravity, analogous to that for gauge theory arising from the Chalmers-Siegel action, leads to a perturbation theory about an asymmetric weak coupling limit that treats positive and negative helicities differently. We find power counting rules for amplitudes that suggest the theory could find a natural interpretation in terms of a twistor-string theory for gravity with amplitudes supported on holomorphic curves in twistor space.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0511189,
  title  = {A Chiral Perturbation Expansion for Gravity},
  author = {M. Abou-Zeid and C. M. Hull},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0511189},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages, LaTeX, no figures; v2: one reference added

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