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In a recent proposal we applied methods from constructive QFT to derive a Hamiltonian Renormalisation Group in order to employ it ultimately for canonical quantum gravity. The proposal was successfully tested for free scalar fields and thus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-01 Klaus Liegener , Thomas Thiemann

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

Negative kinetic energies correspond to ghost degrees of freedom, which are potentially of relevance for cosmology, quantum gravity, and high energy physics. We present a novel wide class of stable mechanical systems where a positive energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-02 Cédric Deffayet , Aaron Held , Shinji Mukohyama , Alexander Vikman

We propose a new non-perturbative method for studying UV complete unitary quantum field theories (QFTs) with a mass gap in general number of spacetime dimensions. The method relies on unitarity formulated as positive semi-definiteness of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-21 Denis Karateev , Simon Kuhn , Joao Penedones

Products of large-N conformal field theories coupled by multi-trace interactions in diverse dimensions are used to define quantum multi-gravity (multi-string theory) on a union of (asymptotically) AdS spaces. One-loop effects generate a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-16 Elias Kiritsis , Vasilis Niarchos

We investigate the classical stability of two coupled scalar fields with opposite-sign kinetic terms evolving in 1+1 dimensional Minkowski spacetime. In the first part, we characterise unquenched ghostly interactions and present numerical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-16 Cédric Deffayet , Aaron Held , Shinji Mukohyama , Alexander Vikman

Large language models, like transformers, have recently demonstrated immense powers in text and image generation. This success is driven by the ability to capture long-range correlations between elements in a sequence. The same feature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Kyle Sprague , Stefanie Czischek

Motivated by the apparent dependence of string $\sigma$--models on the sum of spacetime metric and antisymmetric tensor fields, we reconsider gravity theories constructed from a nonsymmetric metric. We first show that all such "geometrical"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Damour , S. Deser , J. McCarthy

Vector Schwinger model is reinvestigated with the mass like term for gauge field. Phase space structure has been determined in this situation. It has been found that mass of the gauge boson acquires a generalized expression with the bare…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-04 Anisur Rahaman

The analysis of a general multibody physical system governed by Einstein's equations in quite difficult, even if numerical methods (on a computer) are used. Some of the difficulties -- many coupled degrees of freedom, dynamic instability --…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 James A. Isenberg

There has been a lot of research interest in modified gravity theories which utilise the Vainshtein mechanism to recover standard general relativity in regions with high matter density, such as the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati and Galileon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-24 Baojiu Li , Gong-Bo Zhao , Kazuya Koyama

Recent work has indicated that ghost imaging may have applications in standoff sensing. However, most theoretical work has addressed transmission-based ghost imaging. To be a viable remote-sensing system, the ghost imager needs to image…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Nicholas D. Hardy , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

The weak-gravity bound has been discovered in asymptotically safe gravity-matter systems, where it limits the maximum strength of gravitational fluctuations. In the present paper, we explore it for the first time in systems with more than…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Astrid Eichhorn , Jan Henryk Kwapisz , Marc Schiffer

We argue that Lee-Wick's complex ghost appearing in any higher derivative theory is stable and its asymptotic field exists. It may be more appropriate to call it ``anti-unstable" in the sense that, the more the ghost `decays' into lighter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-12 Jisuke Kubo , Taichiro Kugo

The construction of consistent effective field theories in the infrared demands that models be defined by their underlying gauge symmetries, rather than by an arbitrary tuning of couplings or a cherry-picking of operators which may not be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-09 Will Barker , Carlo Marzo , Alessandro Santoni

We discuss gravity-like formulations of massive Abelian and non-Abelian gauge field theories in four space-time dimensions with particular emphasis on the issue of gauge invariance. Alternative descriptions in terms of antisymmetric tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Dennis D. Dietrich

Generalized Effective Field Theory (GEFT) is the non-renormalizable extension of an Effective Field Theory where the Wilson coefficients are endowed by their own, independent scale dependence. Such an effective theory can be constructed by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Nikos Irges , Fotis Koutroulis

Different computational techniques for cosmological phase transition parameters can impact the Gravitational Wave (GW) spectra predicted in a given particle physics model. To scrutinize the importance of this effect, we perform large-scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-24 Marek Lewicki , Marco Merchand , Laura Sagunski , Philipp Schicho , Daniel Schmitt

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

Homogeneous power counting in Non-Relativistic QCD (NRQCD) implies the simultaneous existence of both soft and ultrasoft gluons. In the velocity renormalization group (vNRQCD) formalism we show that operators involving soft fields…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-31 Ira Z. Rothstein , Prashant Shrivastava , Iain W. Stewart