Induced Einstein gravity from infinite towers of states

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that four-dimensional Einstein gravity can emerge from quadratic gravity coupled with infinite towers of matter fields, with finite constants induced at one-loop, suggesting gravity's intrinsic four-dimensional nature.

Contribution

It shows how specific infinite matter towers induce finite gravitational constants in 4D quadratic gravity, using both Adler's and heat kernel methods.

Findings

Finite cosmological and Newton constants are induced at one-loop.

Results are consistent across different computational approaches.

Gravity remains intrinsically four-dimensional despite Kaluza-Klein interpretations.

Abstract

We consider four-dimensional quadratic gravity coupled to infinite towers of free massive scalar fields, Weyl fermions and vector bosons. We find that for specific numbers of towers, finite cosmological and Newton constants are induced in the 1-loop effective action. This is derived both in Adler's approach and by using the heat kernel method, which yield identical results. If the infinite number of massive states may be regarded as Kaluza--Klein modes arising from fields in higher dimensions, there are no Kaluza--Klein states associated with the four-dimensional graviton. Hence gravity is intrinsically four-dimensional.