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Recently a new approach in constructing the conserved charges in cosmological Einstein's gravity was given. In this new formulation, instead of using the explicit form of the field equations a covariantly conserved rank four tensor was…

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We give a concise, self-contained introduction to perturbation theory in cosmology at linear and second order, striking a balance between mathematical rigour and usability. In particular we discuss gauge issues and the active and passive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Karim A. Malik , David R. Matravers

The semiclassical interaction of the gravitational with a quantum scalar field is considered, in view of the renormalizability of the associated energy-momentum tensor in a n-dimensional curved spacetime resulting from a quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Kostas Kleidis

The purpose of this Chapter is to give a general introduction and status review on the perturbative approach to quantum gravity (QG). This text is a modified version of the corresponding chapters of Part II of the recent textbook on quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-08 Ilya L. Shapiro

We develop a purely quantum theory based on the novel principle of relativity, termed the quantum principle of relativity, instead of directly applying the diffeomorphism invariance. We demonstrate that the essence of the principle can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Jinsu Kim , Dongok Kim

Some features of Einstein gravity are most easily understood from string theory but are not manifest at the level of the usual Lagrangian formulation. One example is the factorization of gravity amplitudes into gauge theory amplitudes.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Olaf Hohm

Gravity can be considered as an effective quantum field theory with reliable, but limited predictions. Though the influence of gravity on gauge and other interactions of elementary particles is still an open question. We calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-15 G. Cynolter , E. Lendvai

A constraint of vanishing energy-momentum tensor is motivated by a variety of perspectives on quantum gravity. We demonstrate in a concrete example how this constraint leads to a metric-independent theory in which quantum gravity emerges as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Christopher D. Carone , Joshua Erlich , Diana Vaman

One of the main technical obstacles in constructing a consistent theory of quantum gravity is that the metric itself defines the causal structure required for quantization. This motivates implementing quantum aspects of gravity through an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Johas Morales , Yuri Bonder

We propose a reformulation of gravitation in which the gravitational interaction is treated as a genuine force rather than an inertial effect arising from spacetime geometry. Within this framework, the difference between the affine…

General Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 L. Horoto , F. G. Scholtz

We consider the general framework of perturbative quantum field theory for the general Yang-Mills model including massless and massive vector fields and also scalar and Dirac fields. We describe the chronological products using Wick…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-19 Dan-Radu Grigore

We continue our investigation of massive gravity in the massless limit of vanishing graviton mass. From gauge invariance we derive the most general coupling between scalar matter and gravity. We get further couplings beside the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-22 D. R. Grigore , G. Scharf

When gravity is sourced by a quantum system, there is tension between its role as the mediator of a fundamental interaction, which is expected to acquire nonclassical features, and its role in determining the properties of spacetime, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Thomas D. Galley , Flaminia Giacomini , John H. Selby

The quantum gravity is formulated based on gauge principle. The model discussed in this paper has local gravitational gauge symmetry and gravitational field is represented by gauge potential. A preliminary study on gravitational gauge group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Ning Wu

Quantization of gravitational field in the neighbourhood of arbitrary nontrivial solution of Einstein equations is considered, the 2nd order of perturbation theory is calculated. The expression for quantum corrections of the field operator…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 O. A. Khrustalev , M. V. Tchitchikina

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In this review we describe a non-trivial relationship between perturbative gauge theory and gravity scattering amplitudes. At the semi-classical or tree level, the scattering amplitudes of gravity theories in flat space can be expressed as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Zvi Bern

The two-dimensional theory of gravity describing a graviton-dilaton system is considered. The graviton-dilaton coupling can be fixed such that the quantum theory remains free of the conformal anomaly for any conformal dimension of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 T. T. Burwick , A. H. Chamseddine

We construct a unified covariant derivative that contains the sum of an affine connection and a Yang-Mills field. With it we construct a lagrangian that is invariant both under diffeomorphisms and Yang-Mills gauge transformations. We assume…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-07-10 Max Chaves

Gravity theory is the basis of modern cosmological models. Thirring-Feynman's tensor field approach to gravitation is an alternative to General Relativity (GR). Though Field Gravity (FG) approach is still developing subject, it opens new…

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