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Covariant renormalizable gravity and its FRW cosmology

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-06 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We consider the diffeomorphism invariant gravity coupled with the ideal fluid in the non-standard way. The Lorentz-invariance of the graviton propagator in such a theory considered as perturbation over flat background turns out to be broken due to non-standard coupling with the ideal fluid. As a result the behavior of the propagator in the ultraviolet/infrared region indicates that some versions of such theory are (super-)renormalizable ones (with appearance of only physical transverse modes). The FRW cosmology in same cases may be different from the one in General Relativity with the possible quintessence/phantom-like inflationary stage.

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@article{arxiv.0905.4213,
  title  = {Covariant renormalizable gravity and its FRW cosmology},
  author = {Shin'ichi Nojiri and Sergei D. Odintsov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.4213},
  year   = {2010}
}

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LaTeX 5 pages, no figure, Phys. Rev. D published version, title is changed, reference is corrected

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