Quantizing the non-linear graviton
Abstract
We consider holomorphic Poisson-BF theory on twistor space. Classically, this describes self-dual Einstein gravity on space-time, but at the quantum level it is plagued by an anomaly. The anomaly corresponds to the fact that integrability of the self-dual vacuum Einstein equations does not survive in self-dual quantum gravity. We compute the anomaly polynomials in the Poisson-BF theory, as well as in this theory coupled to a holomorphic BF theory on twistor space describing self-dual Yang-Mills. We show that all anomalies may be cancelled by further coupling to a twistor field representing a type of axion on space-time. When the twistor anomalies are cancelled, all -pt amplitudes vanish and integrability is restored.
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@article{arxiv.2208.12701,
title = {Quantizing the non-linear graviton},
author = {Roland Bittleston and Atul Sharma and David Skinner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.12701},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
70 pages, 12 figures; v2: clarifications added, typos corrected; v3: published in CIMP