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Renormalization of Horava Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-06-27 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We prove perturbative renormalizability of projectable Horava gravity. The key element of the argument is the choice of a gauge which ensures the correct anisotropic scaling of the propagators and their uniform falloff at large frequencies and momenta. This guarantees that the counterterms required to absorb the loop divergences are local and marginal or relevant with respect to the anisotropic scaling. Gauge invariance of the counterterms is achieved by making use of the background-covariant formalism. We also comment on the difficulties of this approach when addressing the renormalizability of the non-projectable model.

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@article{arxiv.1512.02250,
  title  = {Renormalization of Horava Gravity},
  author = {Andrei O. Barvinsky and Diego Blas and Mario Herrero-Valea and Sergey M. Sibiryakov and Christian F. Steinwachs},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.02250},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

35 pages, no figures; references discussing gauge invariance of counterterms have been added, typos corrected

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