Abstract
We investigate the properties of fakeons in quantum gravity at one loop. The theory is described by a graviton multiplet, which contains the fluctuation hμν of the metric, a massive scalar ϕ and the spin-2 fakeon χμν . The fields ϕ and χμν are introduced explicitly at the level of the Lagrangian by means of standard procedures. We consider two options, where ϕ is quantized as a physical particle or a fakeon, and compute the absorptive part of the self-energy of the graviton multiplet. The width of χμν , which is negative, shows that the theory predicts the violation of causality at energies larger than the fakeon mass. We address this issue and compare the results with those of the Stelle theory, where χμν is a ghost instead of a fakeon.
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Anselmi, D., Piva, M. Quantum gravity, fakeons and microcausality. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 21 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2018)021
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Keywords
- Beyond Standard Model
- Models of Quantum Gravity
- Renormalization Regularization and Renormalons