| Autor: |
He M; Theory Center, IPNS, KEK, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan.; Particle Theory and Cosmology Group, Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 34126, Korea., Kamada K; Research Center for the Early Universe, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1 Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.; School of Fundamental Physics and Mathematical Sciences, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (HIAS-UCAS), Hangzhou 310024, China.; International Centre for Theoretical Physics Asia-Pacific (ICTP-AP), Beijing/Hangzhou, China., Mukaida K; Theory Center, IPNS, KEK, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan.; Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan. |
| Abstrakt: |
We formulate scalar field theories coupled nonconformally to gravity in a manifestly frame-independent fashion. Physical quantities such as the S matrix should be invariant under field redefinitions, and hence can be represented by the geometry of the target space. This elegant geometric formulation, however, is obscured when considering the coupling to gravity because of the redundancy associated with the Weyl transformation. The well-known example is the Higgs inflation, where the target space of the Higgs fields is flat in the Jordan frame but is curved in the Einstein frame. Furthermore, one can even show that any geometry of O(N) nonlinear σ models can be flattened by an appropriate Weyl transformation. In this Letter, we extend the notion of the target space by including the conformal mode of the metric, and show that the extended geometry provides a compact formulation that is manifestly Weyl-transformation or field-redefinition invariant. We identify the cutoff scale with the inverse of square root of the extended target-space curvature and confirm that it coincides with that obtained from two-to-two scattering amplitudes based on our formalism. |
