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arXiv 1409.3573gr-qcastro-ph.COhep-th
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关于经典和量子幺模引力的一个注记

A note on classical and quantum unimodular gravity

Antonio Padilla, Ippocratis D. Saltas

摘要:

我们讨论了单模引力在经典水平,并在其扩展到紫外线通过适当的路径积分表示。经典上,幺模引力只是广义相对论(GR)的规范固定版本,因此它产生相同的动力学和物理预测。我们澄清这一点,并解释为什么没有意义,它可以“带来一个新的视角”的宇宙学常数的问题。么模引力和GR之间的量子等价性更像是一个微妙的问题,但我们提出了一个论点,表明人们可以始终保持等价性,直到任意高的动量。作为这一点的推论,我们认为,无论何时在量子水平上看到不等价性,这只意味着我们定义了两个不同的量子理论,它们碰巧共享一个经典极限。

英文摘要:

We discuss unimodular gravity at a classical level, and in terms of its extension into the UV through an appropriate path integral representation. Classically, unimodular gravity is simply a gauge fixed version of General Relativity (GR), and as such it yields identical dynamics and physical predictions. We clarify this and explain why there is no sense in which it can "bring a new perspective" to the cosmological constant problem. The quantum equivalence between unimodular gravity and GR is more of a subtle question, but we present an argument that suggests one can always maintain the equivalence up to arbitrarily high momenta. As a corollary to this, we argue that whenever inequivalence is seen at the quantum level, that just means we have defined two different quantum theories that happen to share a classical limit.

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