Quantum Gravity in Everyday Life: General Relativity as an Effective Field Theory

By C. Burgess. Living Reviews in Relativity, 2003

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This article is meant as a summary and introduction to the ideas of effective field theory as applied to gravitational systems, ideas which provide the theoretical foundations for the modern use of general relativity as a theory from which precise predictions are possible.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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The effective field theory of dark energy (2012, background): “For the same reason above, in (4) we are not allowed perturbative field redefinitions of the metric that re-absorb quadratic curvature terms [42] such as λ1 and λ2.”
Analogue Gravity (2005, background): “The review article by Burgess [53], emphasised the role of general relativity as an effective field theory — the sine qua non for any attempt at interpreting general relativity as an emergent theory.”
The Effective Field Theorist's Approach to Gravitational Dynamics (2016, background): “6(b), for which we need the three-graviton vertex [3, 164, 165],”
Inflation and String Theory (2014, background): “Cutting off the (Euclidean) momentum integrals at the scale Λ, we find [177]”
On-shell techniques and universal results in quantum gravity (2013, neutral): “[10] C.”
Lecture notes on Chern-Simons (super-)gravities (2005, background): “For an interesting discussion of how one can live with an effective theory of gravity, see the recent review by Burgess [9].”