Gauge Dependence of Gravitational Correction to Running of Gauge Couplings

2006/06/30 by Artur R. Pietrykowski · 8 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.98.061801

published as Phys.Rev.Lett.98:061801,2007 · 4 pages, final version published in PRL with the note from Robinson and Wilczek added

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Abstract

Recently an interesting idea has been put forward by Robinson and Wilczek that the incorporation of quantized gravity in the framework of Abelian and non-Abelian gauge theories results in a correction to the running of gauge coupling and, as a consequence, increase the grand unification scale and asymptotic freedom. In this Letter it is shown by explicit calculations that this correction depends on the choice of gauge.

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