Quantum massive conformal gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2016-04-08 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We first find the linear approximation of the second plus fourth order derivative massive conformal gravity action. Then we reduce the linearized action to separated second order derivative terms, which allows us to quantize the theory by using the standard first order canonical quantization method. It is shown that quantum massive conformal gravity is renormalizable but has ghost states. A possible decoupling of these ghost states at high energies is discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1503.04355,
title = {Quantum massive conformal gravity},
author = {F. F. Faria},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.04355},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
v2: 10 pages, quantization procedure changed. v3: 10 pages, improved version, match the published version