Infinities within graviton scattering amplitudes

Dec, 1995
19 pages
Published in:
  • Class.Quant.Grav. 14 (1997) 351-365
e-Print:
Report number:
  • SWAT-95-59

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Abstract:
We present unitarity as a method for determining the infinities present in graviton scattering amplitudes. The infinities are a combination of IR and UV. By understanding the soft singularities we may extract the UV infinities and relate these to counter-terms in the effective action. As an demonstration of this method we rederive the UV infinities present at one-loop when gravity is coupled to matter.
Note:
  • 19 pages, 3 postscript figures, plain tex Report-no: SWAT/95-59
  • quantum gravity
  • postulated particle: graviton
  • scattering amplitude: graviton
  • graviton: scattering amplitude
  • infrared problem
  • renormalization
  • coupling: matter
  • matter: coupling
  • matter: scalar
  • perturbation theory