Renormalizable quantum field theory in curved spacetime with external two-form field

Abstract

We argue that the renormalizability of interacting quantum field theory on the curved-space background with an additional external antisymmetric tensor (two-form) field requires nonminimal interaction of the antisymmetric field with quantum fermions and scalars. The situation is qualitatively similar to the metric and torsion background. In both cases, one can explore the renormalization group running for the parameters of nonminimal interaction and see how this interaction behaves in the UV limit. General considerations are confirmed by the one-loop calculations in the well-known gauge model based on the $SU(2)$ gauge group.