The S-matrix and graviton self-energy in quantum Yang-Mills gravity
Abstract
The S-matrix, its unitarity and the graviton self-energy at the one-loop level are discussed on the basis of quantum Yang-Mills gravity with the translational gauge symmetry in flat space-time. The unitarity and gauge invariance of the S-matrix in a class of gauge conditions is preserved by massless ghost vector particles, called `Feynman-DeWitt-Mandelstam' (FDM) ghosts, in quantum Yang-Mills gravity. Using dimensional regularization, the graviton self-energy are explicitly calculated with a general gauge condition. The resultant divergence of graviton self-energy at the one-loop level resembles to that in quantum electrodynamics.
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@article{arxiv.1210.4503,
title = {The S-matrix and graviton self-energy in quantum Yang-Mills gravity},
author = {Jong-Ping Hsu and Sung Hoon Kim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.4503},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
20 pages, to be published in The European Physical Journal Plus, 2012. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1005.3272