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The search for a mathematical foundation for the path integral of Euclidean quantum gravity calls for the construction of random geometry on the spacetime manifold. Following developments in physics on the two-dimensional theory, random…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-20 Timothy Budd

Scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory are independent of the field parameterization, which has a natural geometric interpretation as a form of `coordinate invariance.' Amplitudes can be expressed in terms of Riemannian curvature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 Timothy Cohen , Nathaniel Craig , Xiaochuan Lu , Dave Sutherland

A quantum scalar field theory with spacetime-dependent coupling is studied. Surprisingly, while translation invariance is explicitly broken in the classical theory, momentum conservation is recovered at the quantum level for some specific…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-29 Gianluca Calcagni , Giuseppe Nardelli

We give a pedagogical introduction of the stochastic variational method by considering the quantization of a non-inertial particle system. We show that the effects of fictitious forces are represented in the forms of vector fields which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-24 T. Koide , K. Tsushima , T. Kodama

There is strong evidence for the conjecture that the $\lambda \phi^4$ QFT- model on 4-dimensional non-commutative Moyal space can be non-perturbatively constructed. As preparation, in this paper we construct the 2-dimensional case with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Chunqiu Song , Hendrik Weber , Raimar Wulkenhaar

The explicit relationship is determined between the interior properties of a static cylindrical matter distribution and the metric of the exterior space-time according to Einstein gravity for space-time dimensionality larger or equal to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 J. Colding , N. K. Nielsen , Y. Verbin

In this paper we quantize the free-particle on a D-dimensional sphere in an unambiguous way by converting the second-class constraint using St\"uckelberg field shiftting formalism. Further, we argument that this formalism is equivalent to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Neves , C. Wotzasek

We study space-time symmetries in scalar quantum field theory (including interacting theories) on static space-times. We first consider Euclidean quantum field theory on a static Riemannian manifold, and show that the isometry group is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Arthur Jaffe , Gordon Ritter

Polymomentum canonical theories, which are manifestly covariant multi-parameter generalizations of the Hamiltonian formalism to field theory, are considered as a possible basis of quantization. We arrive at a multi-parameter hypercomplex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-13 I. V. Kanatchikov

We consider field theories that exhibit a supersymmetric Lifshitz scaling with two real supercharges. The theories can be formulated in the language of stochastic quantization. We construct the free field supersymmetry algebra with rotation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-15 Shira Chapman , Yaron Oz , Avia Raviv-Moshe

The task of quantizing gravity is compared with Einstein's relativization of gravity. The philosophical and physical foundations of general relativity are briefly reviewed. The Ehlers-Pirani-Schild scheme of operationally determining the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeeva S. Anandan

We review the method of stochastic quantization for a scalar field theory. We first give a brief survey for the case of self-interacting scalar fields, implementing the stochastic perturbation theory up to the one-loop level. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Menezes , N. F. Svaiter

We demonstrate in detail how the space of two-dimensional quantum field theories can be parametrized by off-shell states of a free closed string moving in a flat background. The dynamic equation corresponding to the condition of conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Gregory Pelts

A formalism for quantum many-body systems is proposed through a semiclassical treatment in phase space, allowing us to establish a stochastic thermodynamics incorporating quantum statistics. Specifically, we utilize a stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-23 Zhaoyu Fei

In the context of quantum gravitational systems, we place bounds on regions in field space with slowly varying positive potentials. Using the fact that $V<\Lambda_s^2$, where $\Lambda_s(\phi)$ is the species scale, and the emergent string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-13 Damian van de Heisteeg , Cumrun Vafa , Max Wiesner , David H. Wu

This research establishes an operational measurement way to express the quantum field theory in a geometrical form. In four-dimensional spacetime continuum, the orthogonal rotation is defined. It forms two sets of equations: one set is…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jianhua Xiao

In the present article we display a new constructive quantum field theory approach to quantum gauge field theory, utilizing the recent progress in the integration theory on the moduli space of generalized connections modulo gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-15 Thomas Thiemann

We develop a unified stochastic framework in which a velocity- and helicity-reversing Poisson process gives rise to the Telegrapher's equation. Analytic continuation to the complex plane results in Dirac-like evolution equations for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-15 Partha Nandi , Partha Ghose

We give a non-perturbative proof that any 4D unitary and Lorentz-invariant quantum field theory with a conserved scale current is in fact conformally invariant. We show that any scale invariant theory (unitary or not) must have either a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-18 Kara Farnsworth , Markus A. Luty , Valentina Prelipina

We review the application of the spectral zeta-function to the 1- loop properties of quantum field theories on manifolds with boundary, with emphasis on Euclidean quantum gravity and quantum cosmology. As was shown in the literature some…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Giampiero Esposito , Guglielmo Fucci , Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik , Klaus Kirsten