Fakeons, microcausality and the classical limit of quantum gravity

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作者
Anselmi, Damiano [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Pisa, Dipartimento Fis Enrico Fermi, Largo B Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[2] INFN, Sez Pisa, Largo B Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
关键词
quantum gravity; renormalization; quantum field theory; classical gravity;
D O I
10.1088/1361-6382/ab04c8
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We elaborate on the idea of fake particle and study its physical consequences. When a theory contains fakeons, the true classical limit is determined by the quantization and a subsequent process of 'classicization'. One of the major predictions due to the fake particles is the violation of microcausality, which survives the classical limit. This fact gives hope to detect the violation experimentally. A fakeon of spin two, together with a scalar field, is able to make quantum gravity renormalizable while preserving unitarity. We claim that the theory of quantum gravity emerging from this construction is the right one. By means of the classicization, we work out the corrections to the field equations of general relativity. We show that the finalized equations have, in simple terms, the form < F > = ma, where < F > is an average that includes a little bit of 'future'.
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