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Agravity

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-05-11 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We explore the possibility that the fundamental theory of nature does not contain any scale. This implies a renormalizable quantum gravity theory where the graviton kinetic term has 4 derivatives, and can be reinterpreted as gravity minus an anti-graviton. We compute the super-Planckian RGE of adimensional gravity coupled to a generic matter sector. The Planck scale and a flat space can arise dynamically at quantum level provided that a quartic scalar coupling and its β\beta function vanish at the Planck scale. This is how the Higgs boson behaves for Mh125M_h\approx 125 GeV at Mt171M_t\approx 171 GeV. Within agravity, inflation is a generic phenomenon: the slow-roll parameters are given by the β\beta-functions of the theory, and are small if couplings are perturbative. The predictions ns0.967n_s\approx 0.967 and r0.13r\approx 0.13 arise if the inflaton is identified with the Higgs of gravity. Furthermore, quadratically divergent corrections to the Higgs mass vanish: a small weak scale is natural and can be generated by agravity quantum corrections.

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@article{arxiv.1403.4226,
  title  = {Agravity},
  author = {Alberto Salvio and Alessandro Strumia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.4226},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

24 pages. References added, final version to appear on JHEP. v3: misprints fixed

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