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Gravitational renormalization of quantum field theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-13 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We propose to include gravity in quantum field theory non-perturbatively, by modifying the propagators so that each virtual particle in a Feynman graph move in the space-time determined by the four-momenta of the other particles in the same graph. By making additional working assumptions, we are able to put this idea at work in a simplified context, and obtain a modified Feynman propagator for the massless neutral scalar field. Our expression shows a suppression at high momentum, strong enough to entail finite results, to all loop orders, for processes involving at least two virtual particles.

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@article{arxiv.0806.0501,
  title  = {Gravitational renormalization of quantum field theory},
  author = {Roberto Casadio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.0501},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Latex, 14 pages, 4 figures. Final version to appear in IJMPA

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