Correlated Worldline theory: Structure and Consistency

Abstract

We give a formal treatment of the "Correlated Worldline" theory of quantum gravity. The generating functional is written as a product over multiple copies of the coupled matter and gravitational fields; paths for fields are correlated via gravity itself. In the limit where the gravitational coupling $G\to 0$, conventional quantum field theory is recovered; in the classical limit $\hslash \to 0$, General Relativity is recovered. A formal loop expansion is derived, with all terms up to one-loop order $\sim O(l_P^2)$ given explicitly, where $l_P$ is the Planck length. We then derive the form of a perturbation expansion in $l_P^2$ around a background field, with the correlation functions given explicitly up to $\sim O(l_P^2)$. Finally, we explicitly demonstrate the on-shell gauge independence of the theory, to order $l_P^2$ in gravitational coupling and to all orders in matter loops, and derive the relevant Ward identities.

20 pages, 6 figures

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