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.
Cite
@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