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量子引力中的因果性、么正性和稳定性:一个非微扰的观点

Causality, unitarity and stability in quantum gravity: a non-perturbative perspective

Alessia Platania

摘要:

在引力路径积分的水平上恢复量子涨落预计会导致非局部有效作用,从而导致传播子的非平凡动量依赖性。(修饰的)引力子传播子必须满足哪些性质以及它们是否都能满足是关键的开放问题。在这项工作中,我们提出的标准和条件的动量依赖的引力子传播,这是一致的么正性,因果关系和稳定性在非微扰设置。为此,我们重新审视这些条件的几个方面,强调在最近的讨论中丢失的一些警告和微妙之处,并阐明据我们所知尚未详细研究的其他问题。我们讨论这些概念的后果的性质的引力子传播。最后,我们提供的传播满足么正性和因果关系的例子,同时避免快子和真空不稳定性,并允许分析威克旋转。

英文摘要:

Resumming quantum fluctuations at the level of the gravitational path integral is expected to result in non-local effective actions and thus in a non-trivial momentum dependence of the propagator. Which properties the (dressed) graviton propagator has to satisfy and whether they can all be met are key open questions. In this work we present criteria and conditions for the momentum dependence of a graviton propagator which is consistent with unitarity, causality, and stability in a non-perturbative setting. To this end, we revisit several aspects of these conditions, highlighting some caveats and subtleties that got lost in recent discussions, and spelling out others that to our best knowledge have not been studied in detail. We discuss the consequences of these concepts for the properties of the graviton propagator. Finally, we provide examples of propagators satisfying unitarity and causality, while avoiding tachyonic and vacuum instabilities, and allowing for an analytic Wick rotation.

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