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Renormalization of Higher Derivative Quantum Gravity Coupled to a Scalar with Shift Symmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-16 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

It has been suggested that higher-derivative gravity theories coupled to a scalar field with shift symmetry may be an important candidate for a quantum gravity. We show that this class of gravity theories are renormalizable in D = 3 and 4 dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.1306.6701,
  title  = {Renormalization of Higher Derivative Quantum Gravity Coupled to a Scalar with Shift Symmetry},
  author = {Kenji Muneyuki and Nobuyoshi Ohta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.6701},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

11 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1201.2058. v2: minor corrections. v3: minor corrections to match the published version