Gupta-Feynman based Quantum Field Theory of Einstein’s Gravity

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Abstract This paper is an application to Einstein’s gravity (EG) of the mathematics developed in (Plastino and Rocca 2018 J. Phys. Commun. 2, 115029). We will quantize EG by appeal to the most general quantization approach, the Schwinger-Feynman variational principle, which is more appropriate and rigorous that the functional integral method, when we are in the presence of derivative couplingsWe base our efforts on works by Suraj N. Gupta and Richard P. Feynman so as to undertake the construction of a Quantum Field Theory (QFT) of Einstein Gravity (EG). We explicitly use the Einstein Lagrangian elaborated by Gupta (Gupta, Proc. Pys. Soc. A, 65, 161) but choose a new constraint for the theory that differs from Gupta’s one. In this way, we avoid the problem of lack of unitarity for the S matrix that afflicts the procedures of Gupta and Feynman. Simultaneously, we significantly simplify the handling of constraints. This eliminates the need to appeal to ghosts for guarantying the unitarity of the theory. Our ensuing approach is obviously non-renormalizable. However, this inconvenience can be overcome by appealing tho the mathematical theory developed by (Bollini et al Int. J. of Theor. Phys. 38, 2315, Bollini and Rocca Int. J. of Theor. Phys. 43, 1909, Bollini and Rocca Int. J. of Theor. Phys. 43, 59, Bollini et al, Int. J. of Theor. Phys. 46, 3030, Plastino and Rocca J. Phys. Commun. 2, 115029) Such developments were founded in the works of Alexander Grothendieck (Grothendieck Mem. Amer. Math Soc. 16 and in the theory of Ultradistributions of Jose Sebastiao e Silva Math. Ann. 136, 38) (also known as Ultrahyperfunctions). Based on these works, we have constructed a mathematical edifice, in a lapse of about 25 years, that is able to quantize non-renormalizable Field Theories (FT). Here we specialize this mathematical theory to treat the quantum field theory of Einsteins’s gravity (EG). Because we are using a Gupta-Feynman inspired EG Lagrangian, we are able to evade the intricacies of Yang-Mills theories.