Fakeons, Microcausality And The Classical Limit Of Quantum Gravity

Damiano Anselmi

doi:10.1088/1361-6382/ab04c8

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Fakeons, Microcausality And The Classical Limit Of Quantum Gravity

arXiv:1809.05037 · doi:10.1088/1361-6382/ab04c8

Abstract

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 2, 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".

27 pages, 4 figures; v2: expanded intro and bibliography, Class. Q. Grav

Fakeons, Microcausality And The Classical Limit Of Quantum Gravity

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