https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4896-4
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
One-loop renormalization of a gravity-scalar system
Department of Applied Mathematics, Philander Smith College, Little Rock, AR, 72223, USA
* e-mail: inyongpark05@gmail.com
Received:
14
October
2016
Accepted:
8
May
2017
Published online:
22
May
2017
Extending the renormalizability proposal of the physical sector of 4D Einstein gravity, we have recently proposed renormalizability of the 3D physical sector of gravity-matter systems. The main goal of the present work is to conduct systematic one-loop renormalization of a gravity-matter system by applying our foliation-based quantization scheme. In this work we explicitly carry out renormalization of a gravity-scalar system with a Higgs-type potential. With the fluctuation part of the scalar field gauged away, the system becomes renormalizable through a metric field redefinition. We use dimensional regularization throughout. One of the salient aspects of our analysis is how the graviton propagator acquires the “mass” term. One-loop calculations lead to renormalization of the cosmological and Newton constants. We discuss other implications of our results as well: time-varying vacuum energy density and masses of the elementary particles as well as the potential relevance of Neumann boundary condition for black hole information.
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