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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

We advance a class of unitary higher derivative theories of gravity that realize an ultraviolet completion of Einstein general relativity in any dimension. This range of theories is marked by an entire function, which averts extra degrees…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-28 Leonardo Modesto

A finite and unitary nonlocal formulation of quantum gravity is applied to the cosmological constant problem. The entire functions in momentum space at the graviton-standard model particle loop vertices generate an exponential suppression…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-08 J. W. Moffat

Matter interacting classically with gravity in 3+1 dimensions usually gives rise to a continuum of degrees of freedom, so that, in any attempt to quantize the theory, ultraviolet divergences are nearly inevitable. Here, we investigate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gerard 't Hooft

General relativity becomes vastly simpler in three spacetime dimensions: all vacuum solutions have constant curvature, and the moduli space of solutions can be almost completely characterized. As a result, this lower dimensional setting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-21 S. Carlip

We construct the three-loop four-point amplitude of N=8 supergravity using the unitarity method. The amplitude is ultraviolet finite in four dimensions. Novel cancellations, not predicted by traditional superspace power-counting arguments,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. Bern , J. J. Carrasco , L. J. Dixon , H. Johansson , D. A. Kosower , R. Roiban

We discuss some general properties of quantum gravity in De Sitter space. It has been argued that the Hilbert space is of finite dimension. This suggests a macroscopic argument that General Relativity cannot be quantized -- unless it is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward Witten

The quantization of gravity offers a solution to the presence of singularities in cosmology. Infinities are removed because of the existence of finite quanta of spacetime. This is one of the most important prediction of Loop Quantum…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2013-05-13 Francesca Vidotto

A calculational scheme of quantum-gravitational effects on the physical quantities is proposed. The calculations are performed in 4-$\epsilon$ dimension with $1/N$-expansion scheme, where the Einstein gravity is renormalizable and it has an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Kazuo Ghoroku

Non-invertible symmetries have been extensively studied in quantum field theories in recent years. In this note we initiate their study in supergravity. We find infinite families of non-invertible defects in 11d and 10d Type II…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Eduardo García-Valdecasas

Should nature be supersymmetric, then it will be described by Quantum Supergravity at least in some energy regimes. The currently most advanced description of Quantum Supergravity and beyond is Superstring Theory/M-Theory in 10/11…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-13 Norbert Bodendorfer , Thomas Thiemann , Andreas Thurn

The Stringy Uncertainty relations, and corrections thereof, were explicitly derived recently from the New Relativity Principle that treats all dimensions and signatures on the same footing and which is based on the postulate that the Planck…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-25 Carlos Castro

Up to now, Einstein's general theory of relativity has passed all experimental tests. But yet we know that it is not a fundamental theory and that it is incompatible with quantum theory. While several extended and improved gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-28 Michael Florian Wondrak , Marcus Bleicher , Piero Nicolini

We give an alternative description of the physical content of general relativity that does not require a Lorentz invariant spacetime. Instead, we find that gravity admits a dual description in terms of a theory where local size is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-30 Henrique Gomes , Sean Gryb , Tim Koslowski

For N=1 supergravity in 3+1 dimensions we determine the graded algebra of the quantized Lorentz generators, supersymmetry generators, and diffeo-morphism and Hamiltonian generators and find that, at least formally, it closes in the chosen…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-08 Andras Csordas , Robert Graham

Quantizing the gravitational field described by General relativity being a notorious difficult, unsolved and maybe meaningless problem I use in this essay a different strategy: I consider a linear theory in the framework of Special…

General Physics · Physics 2016-03-28 Ll. Bel

It is well known that standard gauge theories are renormalizable in D=4 while Einstein gravity is renormalizable in D=2. This is where the research in the field of two derivatives theories is currently standing. We hereby present a class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-09 Leonardo Modesto , Leslaw Rachwal

In this Letter we derive the gravity field equations by varying the action for an ultraviolet complete quantum gravity. Then we consider the case of a static source term and we determine an exact black hole solution. As a result we find a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-22 Leonardo Modesto , John W. Moffat , Piero Nicolini

We consider the large-$D$ limit of Einstein gravity. It is observed that a consistent leading large-$D$ graph limit exists, and that it is built up by a subclass of planar diagrams. The graphs in the effective field theory extension of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr

A one-parameter deformation of Einstein?Hilbert gravity with an inverse Riemann curvature term is derived as the classical limit of quantum gravity compatible with an accelerating universe. This result is based on the investigation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Frederic P. Schuller , Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth