Ghost-free infinite-derivative dilaton gravity in two dimensions
Abstract
We present the ghost-free infinite-derivative extensions of the Spherically-Reduced Gravity (SRG) and Callan-Giddings-Harvey-Strominger (CGHS) theories in two space-time dimensions. For the case of SRG, we specify the Schwarzschild-type gauge and diagonalise the quadratic action for field perturbations after taking the background fields to be those of the flat-space solution with a linear dilaton. Using the obtained diagonalisation, we construct ghost-free infinite-derivative modifications of the SRG theory. In the context of this modified SRG theory we derive a non-local modification of the linearised spherically-reduced Schwarzschild solution. For the case of CGHS gravity, we work in the conformal gauge and diagonalise the quadratic action associated with this theory for a general background solution. Using these results, we construct the ghost-free infinite-derivative modifications of the CGHS theory and examine non-local modifications to the linearised CGHS black-hole solution.
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@article{arxiv.2206.07111,
title = {Ghost-free infinite-derivative dilaton gravity in two dimensions},
author = {Ulrich K. Beckering Vinckers and Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz and Ivan Kolář and Francisco J. Maldonado Torralba and Anupam Mazumdar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.07111},
year = {2022}
}
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21 pages, 5 figures, version accepted for publication in PRD