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The main obstacle in attempts to construct a consistent quantum gravity is the absence of independent flat time. This can in principle be cured by going out to higher dimensions. The modern paradigm assumes that the fundamental theory of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. V. Smilga

We extensively study the ultraviolet quantum properties of a nonlocal action for gravity nonminimally coupled to matter. The theory unifies matter and gravity in an action principle such that all the classical solutions of Einstein's theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-26 Gianluca Calcagni , Breno L. Giacchini , Leonardo Modesto , Tibério de Paula Netto , Lesław Rachwał

In this paper we consider the relation between the super-renormalizable theories of quantum gravity (SRQG) studied in [arXiv:1110.5249v2, arXiv:1202.0008] and an underlying non-commutativity of spacetime. For one particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Stephon Alexander , Antonino Marciano , Leonardo Modesto

In split or Kleinian signature, twistor constructions parametrize solutions to both gauge and gravity self-duality (SD) equation from twistor data that can be expressed in terms of free smooth data without gauge freedom. Here the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-11 Lionel Mason

In these lectures I talk about simplifications and universalities found in scattering amplitudes for gauge and gravity theories. In contrast to Ward identities, which are understood to arise from familiar symmetries of the classical action,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-10 John Joseph M. Carrasco

In this paper we point out some possible links between different approaches to quantum gravity and theories of the Planck scale physics. In particular, connections between Loop Quantum Gravity, Causal Dynamical Triangulations,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-28 Jakub Mielczarek , Tomasz Trześniewski

We hereby present a class of multidimensional higher derivative theories of gravity that realizes an ultraviolet completion of Einstein general relativity. This class is marked by a "non-polynomal" entire function (form factor), which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Leonardo Modesto

The basic features of a quantum field theory which is Poincar\'e invariant, gauge invariant, finite and unitary to all orders of perturbation theory are reviewed. Quantum gravity is finite and unitary to all orders of perturbation theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Moffat

In the first purpose, we concentrate on the theory of quantum integrable systems underlying the Connes-Kreimer approach. We introduce a new family of Hamiltonian systems depended on the perturbative renormalization process in renormalizable…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-16 Ali Shojaei-Fard

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.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Abou-Zeid , C. M. Hull

As a canonical and generally covariant gauge theory, loop quantum gravity requires special techniques to derive effective actions or equations. If the proper constructions are taken into account, the theory, in spite of considerable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-02 Martin Bojowald

In this paper we study an N=1 supersymmetric extension of a perturbatively super-renormalizable (nonlocal)theory of gravity in four dimensions. The nonlocal supergravity theory is power-counting super-renormalizable and tree level unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-14 Leonardo Modesto

This article is an extension of the author's second master thesis [1]. It aims to introduce to the theory of perturbatively quantized General Relativity coupled to Spinor Electrodynamics, provide the results thereof and set the notation to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-09 David Prinz

Witten described how a path integral quantization of Wilson Loop observables will define Jones polynomial type of link invariants, using the Chern-Simons gauge theory in $\mathbb{R}^3$. In this gauge theory, a compact Lie group ${\rm G}$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-08 Adrian P. C. Lim

A family of new twistor string theories is constructed and shown to be free from world-sheet anomalies. The spectra in space-time are calculated and shown to give Einstein supergravities with second order field equations instead of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Mohab Abou-Zeid , Christopher M. Hull , Lionel J. Mason

Adding terms quadratic in the curvature to the Einstein-Hilbert action renders gravity renormalizable. This property is preserved in the presence of the most general renormalizable couplings with (and of) a generic quantum field theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-23 Alberto Salvio

We analyze various gravity theories involving de-Sitter, quadratic $\mathcal{R}^2$ and non-minimally coupled scalar in the light of application of the Dyson-Schwinger technique involving exact background solution of the Green's function. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Marco Frasca , Anish Ghoshal

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-12 Roland Bittleston , Atul Sharma , David Skinner

We study the Connes-Kreimer Hopf algebra of renormalization in the case of gauge theories. We show that the Ward identities and the Slavnov-Taylor identities (in the abelian and non-abelian case respectively) are compatible with the Hopf…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Walter D. van Suijlekom

Gravity is perturbatively renormalizable for the physical states which can be conveniently defined via foliation-based quantization. In recent sequels, one-loop analysis was explicitly carried out for Einstein-scalar and Einstein-Maxwell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-12 I. Y. Park