Author:
Calcagni Gianluca,Rachwał Lesław
Abstract
Abstract
We explore quantum field theories with fractional d'Alembertian □
γ
. Both a scalar field theory with a derivative-dependent potential and gauge theory are super-renormalizable for a fractional power 1 < γ ≤ 2, one-loop super-renormalizable for γ > 2 and finite if one introduces killer operators. Unitarity is achieved by splitting the kinetic term into the product of massive fractional operators, eventually sending the masses to zero if so desired. Fractional quantum gravity is also discussed and found to be super-renormalizable for 2 < γ ≤ 4 and one-loop super-renormalizable for γ > 4. To make it unitary, we combine the splitting procedure with a fractional generalization of the Anselmi-Piva procedure for fakeons. Among new technical results with wider applications, we highlight the Leibniz rule for arbitrary powers of the d'Alembertian and the Källén-Lehmann representation for a propagator with an arbitrary number of branch cuts.
Subject
Astronomy and Astrophysics
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