2015/10/31 by Martin Krššák · 54 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Action (physics) #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Covariant transformation #Gauge theory #Holography #Inertial frame of reference #Mathematical physics #Minkowski space #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Renormalization #Spin connection #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4621-3
published in The European Physical Journal C 77(1) (Springer Science+Business Media) · 9 pages, v3: Extended discussion on reference tetrads. Matches the published version
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We consider the problem of IR divergences of the action in the covariant formulation of teleparallel gravity in asymptotically Minkowski spacetimes. We show that divergences are caused by inertial effects and can be removed by adding an appropriate surface term, leading to the renormalized action. This process can be viewed as a teleparallel analog of holographic renormalization. Moreover, we explore the variational problem in teleparallel gravity and explain how the variation with respect to the spin connection should be performed.