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arxiv: 1211.3878 · v2 · pith:7GOFZJEKnew · submitted 2012-11-16 · ✦ hep-th · astro-ph.CO· gr-qc

Scheme dependence of quantum gravity on de Sitter background

classification ✦ hep-th astro-ph.COgr-qc
keywords mattereffectivefieldinvariancelorentzmetricparametrizationredefinition
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We extend our investigation of the IR effects on the local dynamics of matter fields in quantum gravity. Specifically we clarify how the IR effects depend on the change of the quantization scheme: different parametrization of the metric and the matter field redefinition. Conformal invariance implies effective Lorentz invariance of the matter system in de Sitter space. An arbitrary choice of the parametrization of the metric and the matter field redefinition does not preserve the effective Lorentz invariance of the local dynamics. As for the effect of different parametrization of the metric alone, the effective Lorentz symmetry breaking term can be eliminated by shifting the background metric. In contrast, we cannot compensate the matter field redefinition dependence by such a way. The effective Lorentz invariance can be retained only when we adopt the specific matter field redefinitions where all dimensionless couplings become scale invariant at the classical level. This scheme is also singled out by unitarity as the kinetic terms are canonically normalized.

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