https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06604-6
Regular Article
When gravitational decoupling and quantum gravity (re)unite
1
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, via Irnerio 46, 40126, Bologna, Italy
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I.N.F.N., Sezione di Bologna, I.S. FLAG, viale B. Pichat 6/2, 40127, Bologna, Italy
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Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Paraná, PO Box 19044, 81531-980, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
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Center of Mathematics, Federal University of ABC, 09210-580, Santo André, Brazil
Received:
15
November
2024
Accepted:
30
June
2025
Published online:
27
July
2025
The effective action for quantum gravity coupled to matter contains corrections arising from the functional measure. We analyse the effect of such corrections for anisotropic self-gravitating compact objects described by means of the gravitational decoupling method applied to isotropic solutions of the Einstein field equations. In particular, we consider the Tolman IV solution of general relativity and show that quantum gravity effects can modify the effective energy density as well as the effective tangential and radial pressures. For a suitable choice of the mimicking constant, upper bounds on the quantum corrections can be driven by the surface redshift of the anisotropic compact stellar system obtained with the gravitational decoupling.
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