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Quantization of the anisotropic conformal Horava theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-08-25 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We perform the Batalin-Fradkin-Vilkovisky quantization of the anisotropic conformal Horava theory in d spatial dimensions. We introduce a model with a conformal potential suitable for any dimension. We define an anisotropic and local gauge-fixing condition that accounts for the spatial diffeomorphisms and the anisotropic Weyl transformations. We show that the BRST transformations can be expressed mainly in terms of a spatial diffeomorphism along a ghost field plus a conformal transformation with another ghost field as argument. We study the quantum Lagrangian in the d=2 case, obtaining that all propagators are regular, except for the fields associated with the measure of the second-class constraints. This behavior is qualitatively equal to the nonconformal case.

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@article{arxiv.2304.08646,
  title  = {Quantization of the anisotropic conformal Horava theory},
  author = {Jorge Bellorin and Claudio Borquez and Byron Droguett},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.08646},
  year   = {2023}
}