Einstein-Hilbert gravity, higher derivatives and a scalar matter field
High Energy Physics - Theory
2024-05-02 v1
Abstract
The present paper extends two previous one's on pure gravity dealing with Einstein-Hilbert and higher derivatives by including a massless scalar field as representative of matter. We study the renormalization to all orders of perturbation theory, provide the Slavnov-Taylor identity, symmetric partial differential equations and derive finiteness properties in the Landau gauge. It is shown that beginning with one-loop negative norm states originating from higher derivatives disappear.
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@article{arxiv.2405.00528,
title = {Einstein-Hilbert gravity, higher derivatives and a scalar matter field},
author = {Klaus Sibold},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.00528},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2012.11450