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Scaling Exponents in Quantum Gravity near Two Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-22 v2

Abstract

We formulate quantum gravity in 2+ϵ2+\epsilon dimensions in such a way that the conformal mode is explicitly separated. The dynamics of the conformal mode is understood in terms of the oversubtraction due to the one loop counter term. The renormalization of the gravitational dressed operators is studied and their anomalous dimensions are computed. The exact scaling exponents of the 2 dimensional quantum gravity are reproduced in the strong coupling regime when we take ϵ0\epsilon\rightarrow0 limit. The theory possesses the ultraviolet fixed point as long as the central charge c<25c<25, which separates weak and strong coupling phases. The weak coupling phase may represent the same universality class with our Universe in the sense that it contains massless gravitons if we extrapolate ϵ\epsilon up to 2.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9206081,
  title  = {Scaling Exponents in Quantum Gravity near Two Dimensions},
  author = {Hikaru Kawai and Yoshihisa Kitazawa and Masao Ninomiya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9206081},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

24 pages and 1 figure, UT-614, TIT/HEP-191 and YITP/U-92-05 (figures added to the 1st version)

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