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Quantum gravity is expanded in powers of 1/D, where D is the number of dimensions. The extra dimensions are highly compactified. The expansion is gauge invariant. The leading term is equivalent to the iterated one loop matter corrections due to a free, massless scalar field without the \(\frac{1}{6} R\phi ^2\). term necessary for conformal invariance. The 1/D expansion is renormalizable. Flat space is found to be unstable under small fluctuations.
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Strominger, A. (1983). A gauge invariant resummation of quantum gravity. In: Kikkawa, K., Nakanishi, N., Nariai, H. (eds) Gauge Theory and Gravitation. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 176. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-11994-9_28
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