Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2010-10-05
Nature 468:56-59,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
To be published in Nature. 19 pages LaTeX, no figures
Scientific paper
10.1038/nature09506
Quantum electrodynamics describes the interactions of electrons and photons. Electric charge (the gauge coupling constant) is energy dependent, and there is a previous claim that charge is affected by gravity (described by general relativity) with the implication that the charge is reduced at high energies. But that claim has been very controversial with the situation inconclusive. Here I report an analysis (free from earlier controversies) demonstrating that that quantum gravity corrections to quantum electrodynamics have a quadratic energy dependence that result in the reduction of the electric charge at high energies, a result known as asymptotic freedom.
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