Infinity Suppression in Gravity-Modified Quantum Electrodynamics

C. J. Isham, Abdus Salam, and J. Strathdee
Phys. Rev. D 3, 1805 – Published 15 April 1971
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Abstract

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.

  • Received 28 September 1970

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.3.1805

©1971 American Physical Society

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C. J. Isham, Abdus Salam*, and J. Strathdee

  • International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Miramare-Trieste, Italy

  • *International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, and Imperial College, London, England.

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Vol. 3, Iss. 8 — 15 April 1971

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