Effective quantum gravity observables and locally covariant QFT
Abstract
Perturbative algebraic quantum field theory (pAQFT) is a mathematically rigorous framework that allows to construct models of quantum field theories on a general class of Lorentzian manifolds. Recently this idea has been applied also to perturbative quantum gravity, treated as an effective theory. The difficulty was to find the right notion of observables that would in an appropriate sense be diffeomorphism invariant. In this article I will outline a general framework that allows to quantize theories with local symmetries (this includes infinitesimal diffeomorphism transformations) with the use of the BV (Batalin-Vilkovisky) formalism. This approach has been successfully applied to effective quantum gravity in a recent paper by R. Brunetti, K. Fredenhagen and myself. In the same paper we also proved perturbative background independence of the quantized theory, which is going to be discussed in the present work as well.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1603.06993,
title = {Effective quantum gravity observables and locally covariant QFT},
author = {Kasia Rejzner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.06993},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
16 pages, based on a plenary talk given at the 14th Marcel Grossmann Meeting in Rome (July 2015)