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arXiv 0910.4028gr-qchep-th
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具有两个传播自由度的度量拉格朗日量

Metric Lagrangians with two propagating degrees of freedom

Kirill Krasnov

摘要:

存在一个大类的一般共变度量拉格朗日只包含本地条款和描述两个传播自由度。通过对广义相对论的拉格朗日量应用局部场重新定义可以获得一些琐碎的例子,但我们表明两个传播自由度的拉格朗日量的类别要大得多。因此,我们展示了一个大家庭的非本地字段的重新定义,映射到只包含本地条款的爱因斯坦-希尔伯特拉格朗日。这些重新定义起源于BF理论的拓扑移位对称性,GR在Plebanski公式中与之相关,并且可以按顺序计算为黎曼曲率的幂展开。在最低的非平凡阶,这样的场重定义产生了(黎曼)^3不变量,它作为双圈量子引力反项出现。讨论了量子引力的可能含义。

英文摘要:

There exists a large class of generally covariant metric Lagrangians that contain only local terms and describe two propagating degrees of freedom. Trivial examples can be be obtained by applying a local field redefinition to the Lagrangian of general relativity, but we show that the class of two propagating degrees of freedom Lagrangians is much larger. Thus, we exhibit a large family of non-local field redefinitions that map the Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian into ones containing only local terms. These redefinitions have origin in the topological shift symmetry of BF theory, to which GR is related in Plebanski formulation, and can be computed order by order as expansions in powers of the Riemann curvature. At its lowest non-trivial order such a field redefinition produces the (Riemann)^3 invariant that arises as the two-loop quantum gravity counterterm. Possible implications for quantum gravity are discussed.

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