S Hossenfelder 2008 Class. Quantum Grav. 25 038003 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/25/3/038003
S Hossenfelder
Show affiliationsThe aim of this note is to address the low energy limit of quantum field theories with a minimal length scale. The essential feature of these models is that the mininal length acts as a regulator in the asymptotic high energy limit which is incorporated through an infinite series of higher order derivatives. If one investigates a perturbative expansion in inverse powers of the Planck mass, one generically obtains extra poles in the propagator, and instabilities connected with the higher order derivative Lagrangian, which are however artifacts of truncating the series.
83C45 Quantization of the gravitational field
81T15 Perturbative methods of renormalization
81T75 Noncommutative geometry methods (See also 46L85, 46L87, 58B34)
Issue 3 (7 February 2008)
Received 10 December 2007, in final form 14 December 2007
Published 14 January 2008
S Hossenfelder 2008 Class. Quantum Grav. 25 038003
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