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A healthy extension of Horava gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-05-25 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We propose a natural extension of Horava's model for quantum gravity, which is free from the notorious pathologies of the original proposal. The new model endows the scalar graviton mode with a regular quadratic action and remains power-counting renormalizable. At low energies, it reduces to a Lorentz-violating scalar-tensor gravity theory. The deviations with respect to general relativity can be made weak by an appropriate choice of parameters.

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@article{arxiv.0909.3525,
  title  = {A healthy extension of Horava gravity},
  author = {D. Blas and O. Pujolas and S. Sibiryakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.3525},
  year   = {2010}
}

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