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A proposal for covariant renormalizable field theory of gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-20 v4 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The class of covariant gravity theories which have nice ultraviolet behavior and seem to be (super)-renormalizable is proposed. The apparent breaking of Lorentz invariance occurs due to the coupling with the effective fluid which is induced by Lagrange multiplier constrained scalar field. Spatially-flat FRW cosmology for such covariant field gravity may have accelerating solutions. Renormalizable versions of more complicated modified gravity which depends on Riemann and Ricci tensor squared may be constructed in the same way.

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@article{arxiv.1004.3613,
  title  = {A proposal for covariant renormalizable field theory of gravity},
  author = {Shin'ichi Nojiri and Sergei D. Odintsov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.3613},
  year   = {2014}
}

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