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Based on the renormalizable theory of gravitation recently proposed by Horava, we present a simple scenario to generate almost scale-invariant, super-horizon curvature perturbations. The anisotropic scaling with dynamical critical exponent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-12 Shinji Mukohyama

Horava gravity has been constructed so as to exhibit anisotropic scaling in the ultraviolet, as this renders the theory power-counting renormalizable. However, when coupled to matter, the theory has been shown to suffer from quadratic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-12 Mattia Colombo , A. Emir Gumrukcuoglu , Thomas P. Sotiriou

We investigate the scalar and tensor perturbations in Horava gravity, with and without detailed balance, around a flat background. Once both types of perturbations are taken into account, it is revealed that the theory is plagued by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-18 C. Bogdanos , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Recently Horava proposed a renormalizable gravity theory with higher spatial derivatives in four dimensions which reduces to Einstein gravity with a non-vanishing cosmological constant in IR but with improved UV behaviors. Here, I consider…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-15 Mu-in Park

Recently Horava proposed a non-relativistic renormalisable theory of gravitation, which reduces to Einstein's general relativity at large distances, and that may provide a candidate for a UV completion of Einstein's theory. In this paper,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-02 H. Lu , Jianwei Mei , C. N. Pope

We study Horava-Lifshitz gravity in the presence of a scalar field. When the detailed balance condition is implemented, a new term in the gravitational sector is added in order to maintain ultraviolet stability. The four-dimensional theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Gianluca Calcagni

We present a gravitational field theory that implements Horava's proposal of foliation-preserving-diffeomorphisms symmetry and higher spatial curvature directly in the canonical formalism. Due to the higher spatial derivative the theory is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-04 Jorge Bellorin

We revisit gauge invariant cosmological perturbations in UV-modified, z = 3 Horava gravity with one scalar matter field, which has been proposed as a renormalizable gravity theory without the ghost problem in four dimensions. We confirm…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-24 Mu-In Park

Recently Horava proposed a renormalizable gravity theory with higher derivatives by abandoning the Lorenz invariance in UV. Here, I study the Horava model at $\lambda=1/3$, where an anisotropic Weyl symmetry exists in the UV limit, in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-14 Mu-in Park

Horava's proposal for non-relativistic quantum gravity introduces a preferred time foliation of space-time which violates the local Lorentz invariance. The foliation is encoded in a dynamical scalar field which we call `khronon'. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-11 Diego Blas , Oriol Pujolas , Sergey Sibiryakov

Horava and Melby-Thompson recently proposed a new version of the Horava-Lifshitz theory of gravity, in which the spin-0 graviton is eliminated by introducing a Newtonian pre-potential $\phi$ and a local U(1) gauge field $A$. In this paper,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-23 Anzhong Wang , Yumei Wu

We discuss the cosmology of recently proposed Horava-Lifshitz f(R) gravity. In particular, we derive the modified Hubble equation that reduces to the standard HL gravity case in appropriate limit. We show how the bounce solutions in this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-13 Sayan K. Chakrabarti , Koushik Dutta , Anjan A. Sen

Tensor-scalar theories of gravitation are commonly employed as extensions of General Relativity that allow to describe a much wider phenomenology. They are also naturally generated as low energy limit of higher-dimensional or unified…

General Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 F. Minotti , G. Modanese

We propose a new extended theory of Ho\v{r}ava gravity based on the following three conditions: (i) UV completion, (ii) healthy IR behavior and (iii) a stable vacuum state in quantized version of the theory. Compared with other extended…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-09-21 Fu-Wen Shu

At the present work, it is studied the extension of F (R) gravities to the new recently proposed theory of gravity, the so-called Horava-Lifshitz gravity, which provides a way to make the theory power counting renormalizable by breaking…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Diego Sáez-Gómez

We define various Born-Infeld gravity theories in 3+1 dimensions which reduce to Horava's model at the quadratic level in small curvature expansion. In their exact forms, our actions provide z->(infinity) extensions of Horava's gravity, but…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-06-24 Ibrahim Gullu , Tahsin Cagri Sisman , Bayram Tekin

Horava gravity breaks Lorentz symmetry by introducing a dynamical timelike scalar field (the khronon), which can be used as a preferred time coordinate (thus selecting a preferred space-time foliation). Adopting the khronon as the time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-21 Enrico Barausse , Marco Crisostomi , Stefano Liberati , Lotte ter Haar

We set up a vacuum theory of gravity with an extra dimension of vanishing proper length. The most general solution to the field equations are presented. This formulation is free of Kaluza-Klein modes and does not allow the propagation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-26 Sandipan Sengupta

We study Birkhoff's theorem, which states the absence of time-dependent, spherically symmetric vacuum solutions in four-dimensional Horava gravity, which has been proposed as a renormalizable quantum gravity without the ghost problem. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-05 Deniz O. Devecioglu , Mu-In Park

We introduce new models of f(R) theories of gravity that are generalization of Horava-Lifshitz gravity.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 J. Kluson