Non-perturbative unitarity and fictitious ghosts in quantum gravity

We discuss aspects of non-perturbative unitarity in quantum field theory. The additional ghost degrees of freedom arising in “truncations” of an effective action at a finite order in derivatives could be fictitious degrees of freedom. Their contributions to the fully-dressed propagator – the residue...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alessia Platania, Christof Wetterich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269320307140