Unitarity versus Renormalizability of Higher Derivative Gravity in 3D
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-03 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
It has been suggested that new massive gravity with higher order terms in the curvature may be renormalizable and thus a candidate for renormalizable quantum gravity. We show that three-dimensional gravity that contains quadratic scalar curvature and Ricci tensor is renormalizable, but those theories with special relation between their coefficients including new massive gravity are not.
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@article{arxiv.1201.2058,
title = {Unitarity versus Renormalizability of Higher Derivative Gravity in 3D},
author = {Kenji Muneyuki and Nobuyoshi Ohta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.2058},
year = {2015}
}
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9 pages. v2: title changed, minor modification. v3: minor corrections to match the published version