Teleparallel Renormalization of Gravitational Action
Abstract
We study the gravitational action in the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity, where the spin connection contributes to the action through a surface term and, when chosen appropriately, regularizes the action by effectively playing the role of a counterterm. We resolve several apparent ambiguities in this procedure using the Schwarzschild spacetime as an example. We show that the apparent discrepancy between bulk and quasilocal actions originates from contributions associated with spacetime singularities, and that the quasilocal action agrees with the standard results obtained in general relativity. We further clarify the role of the tetrad choice in determining the corresponding spin connection, showing that the proper diagonal and canonical frames give the same Euclidean action, while only the proper diagonal frame reproduces the expected Lorentzian action on the Wheeler--DeWitt patch. Finally, we establish the uniqueness of the regularization scheme and show that imposing an appropriate fall-off behavior of the torsion tensor removes the remaining ambiguity and fixes the Euclidean action uniquely.
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BibTeX
@misc{krssak2026teleparallel,
title = {{Teleparallel Renormalization of Gravitational Action}},
author = {Martin Krššák and Michal Stano},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.31444},
eprint = {2609.31444},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.31444},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Teleparallel Renormalization of Gravitational Action
AU - Martin Krššák
AU - Michal Stano
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/28
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.31444
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.31444
AB - We study the gravitational action in the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity, where the spin connection contributes to the action through a surface term and, when chosen appropriately, regularizes the action by effectively playing the role of a counterterm. We resolve several apparent ambiguities in this procedure using the Schwarzschild spacetime as an example. We show that the apparent discrepancy between bulk and quasilocal actions originates from contributions associated with spacetime singularities, and that the quasilocal action agrees with the standard results obtained in general relativity. We further clarify the role of the tetrad choice in determining the corresponding spin connection, showing that the proper diagonal and canonical frames give the same Euclidean action, while only the proper diagonal frame reproduces the expected Lorentzian action on the Wheeler--DeWitt patch. Finally, we establish the uniqueness of the regularization scheme and show that imposing an appropriate fall-off behavior of the torsion tensor removes the remaining ambiguity and fixes the Euclidean action uniquely.
ER -