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Register a new userGravitational Contact Interactions and the Physical Equivalence of Weyl Transformations in Effective Field Theory
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Christopher T. Hill
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2020
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Theories of scalars and gravity, with non-minimal interactions, $sim (M_P^2 +F(phi) )R +L(phi)$, have graviton exchange induced contact terms. These terms arise in single particle reducible diagrams with vertices $propto q^2$ that cancel the Feynman propagator denominator $1/q^2$ and are familiar in various other physical contexts. In gravity these lead to additional terms in the action such as $sim F(phi) T_mu^mu(phi)/M_P^2$ and $F(phi)partial^2 F(phi)/M_P^2$. The contact terms are equivalent to induced operators obtained by a Weyl transformation that removes the non-minimal interactions, leaving a minimal Einstein-Hilbert gravitational action. This demonstrates explicitly the equivalence of different representations of the action under Weyl transformations, both classically and quantum mechanically. To avoid such hidden contact terms one is compelled to go to the minimal Einstein-Hilbert representation.
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