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A scalar field theory is constructed on an energy-momentum background of constant curvature. The generalization of the usual Feynamn rules for the flat geometry follows from the requirement of their covariance. The main result is that the…

General Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Boris Ivetic

We naturally extend the theory of gravity with a conformally coupled scalar field by only requiring conformal invariance of the scalar field equation of motion and not of the action. The classically extended theory incorporates a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-07 Pedro G. S. Fernandes

Quantization of gravity is discussed in the context of field quantization based on an analogue of canonical formalism (the De Donder-Weyl canonical theory) which does not require the space+time decomposition. Using Horava's (1991) De…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Kanatchikov

A class of globally scale-invariant scalar-tensor theories have been proposed to be invariant under a larger class of transformations that take the form of local Weyl transformations supplemented by a restriction that the conformal factor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-16 Dražen Glavan , Ruggero Noris , Tom Zlosnik

A structural explanation of the coupling constants in the standard model, i.e the fine structure constant and the Weinberg angle, and of the gauge fixing contributions is given in terms of symmetries and representation theory. The coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Saller , R. Breuninger , M. Haft

We introduce the natural lift of spacetime diffeomorphisms for conformal gravity and discuss the physical equivalence between the natural and gauge natural structure of the theory. Accordingly, we argue that conformal transformations must…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Campigotto , L. Fatibene

We present a new formulation for the canonical approach to conformal (Weyl-squared) gravity and its extension by the Einstein-Hilbert term and a nonminimally coupled scalar field. For this purpose we use a unimodular decomposition of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-19 Claus Kiefer , Branislav Nikolic

A four dimensional generally covariant field theory is presented which describes non-dynamical three geometries coupled to scalar fields. The theory has an infinite number of physical observables (or constants of the motion) which are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Viqar Husain

This paper presents a new perspective on unifying all fundamental interactions--gravitational, electromagnetic, weak and strong--based on stochastic processes rather than conventional quantum mechanics. Earlier work by Nelson, Kac and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Partha Ghose

Generally, quantum field theories can be thought as deformations away from conformal field theories. In this article, with a simple bottom up model assumed to possess a holographic description, we study a putative large N quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Avik Banerjee , Arnab Kundu , Augniva Ray

The aim of this review is to outline a full route from the fundamental principles of algebraic quantum field theory on curved spacetime in its present-day form to explicit phenomenological applications which allow for comparison with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-02 Klaus Fredenhagen , Thomas-Paul Hack

We have considered the problem of the influence of inhomogeneity of gravitational field on transport effects predicted by the field theory describing massless Dirac fermions in the Maxwell and dark matter background. As a model of dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-27 Marek Rogatko , Karol I. Wysokinski

We present in detail a four-dimensional unified quantum theory. In this theory, we identify three class of parameters, coordinate-momentum, spin and gauge, as all and as the only fundamental parameters to describe quantum fields. The…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-23 Chang-Yu Zhu , Heng Fan

Generalized Fourier transformation between the position and the momentum representation of a quantum state is constructed in a coordinate independent way. The only ingredient of this construction is the symplectic (canonical) geometry of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-14 Witold Chmielowiec , Jerzy Kijowski

For a four dimensional, unitary, diffeomorphism- and scale invariant quantum field theory without higher derivatives and a well defined scale current we argue that scale invariance implies conformal invariance. The proof relies on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-11 Ivo Sachs

Yes, there is. - A new kind of gauge theory is introduced, where the minimal coupling and corresponding covariant derivatives are defined in the space of functions pertaining to the functional Schroedinger picture of a given field theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hans-Thomas Elze

In this article we provide the complete proof of the result announced in arXiv:1210.7717 about the construction of scale invariant non-Gaussian generalized stochastic processes over three dimensional p-adic space. The construction includes…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-02-26 Abdelmalek Abdesselam , Ajay Chandra , Gianluca Guadagni

All unitary Rational Conformal Field Theories (RCFT) are conjectured to be related to unitary coset Conformal Field Theories, i.e., gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) models with compact gauge groups. In this paper we use subfactor theory and…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Feng Xu

We show that under certain technical assumptions, including the existence of a constant mean curvature (CMC) slice and strict positivity of the scalar field, general relativity conformally coupled to a scalar field can be quantised on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-25 Norbert Bodendorfer , Alexander Stottmeister , Andreas Thurn

We study the main options for a unitary and renormalizable, local quantum field theory of the gravitational interactions. The first model is a Lee-Wick superrenormalizable higher-derivative gravity, formulated as a nonanalytically Wick…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-20 Damiano Anselmi