Standard perturbative treatments of general relativity yield a non-renormalizable theory, which is typically addressed by treating it as an effective field theory.
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Running Love numbers and the Effective Field Theory of gravity
2025 · cited by 30
Discusses higher derivative corrections and operators arising from the effective field theory of gravity.
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Quantum Gravitational Contributions to the Standard Model Effective Potential and Vacuum Stability
2015 · cited by 25
Explicitly notes that the non-renormalizability of Einstein gravity induces higher dimension operators at the one-loop level.
Quantum signatures in nonlinear gravitational waves
2021 · cited by 24
States that the effective quantum field theory description of gravity is non-renormalizable while still allowing for predictions.