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UV Completion on the Worldline

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arxiv 1905.04258 v2 pith:NU6YCDRU submitted 2019-05-10 hep-th gr-qchep-ph

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keywords proper-timetheoriesworldlineamplitudesattractiveavoidcasecompleting
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A framework for UV completing particle theories is proposed, based on the worldline formalism, which is equivalent to weighting all sums over histories with a proper-time dependent measure that has a smallest proper-time. We deduce a criterion to avoid ghosts, and find that the ghost-free theories have the (string-theory inspired) infinite-derivative model of Siegel as a special case, but represent a significant generalisation. Generically, the UV of such theories is dominated by a saddle-point in the proper-time, leading to simplification in the computation of amplitudes. We focus on a particularly attractive option which is to mimic the regulating properties of modular invariance with a worldline "inversion symmetry".

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  1. Propagator from Nonperturbative Worldline Dynamics

    hep-th 2019-08 reject novelty 6.0 of 10

    Worldline Monte Carlo with a fitted potential PDF gives an all-orders quenched propagator for S2QED, with a pole mass that drops toward zero near a critical coupling around 0.72.

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