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Horava gravity with mixed derivative terms

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-03-12 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Horava gravity has been constructed so as to exhibit anisotropic scaling in the ultraviolet, as this renders the theory power-counting renormalizable. However, when coupled to matter, the theory has been shown to suffer from quadratic divergences. A way to cure these divergences is to add terms with both time and space derivatives. We consider this extended version of the theory in detail. We perform a perturbative analysis that includes all modes, determine the propagators and discuss how including mixed-derivative terms affects them. We also consider the Lifshitz scalar with mixed-derivative terms as a toy model for power counting arguments and discuss the influence of such terms on renormalizability.

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@article{arxiv.1410.6360,
  title  = {Horava gravity with mixed derivative terms},
  author = {Mattia Colombo and A. Emir Gumrukcuoglu and Thomas P. Sotiriou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.6360},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages

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