Infinity suppression gravity modified quantum electrodynamics

Sep, 1970
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 3 (1971) 1805-1817
Report number:
  • IC-70-131

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Abstract: (APS)
Computations of gravity-modified quantum electrodynamics are performed using nonpolynominal Lagrangian field-theory techniques. The inverse of the gravitational constant appears as an effective cutoff mass, and, in particular, it is shown that to order e2 the electron and photon self-energies are finite. The cutoff can be interpreted as if the electron had an intrinsic radius equal to its Schwarzschild radius. A central feature is the construction of the tensor gravity superpropagator.
  • quantum electrodynamics
  • general relativity
  • propagator
  • invariance: gauge
  • quantization
  • perturbation theory: higher-order
  • regularization