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The conjecture by two of the authors (N.E.M. and S.S.) that a \cPT-symmetric phase plays a role in understanding singular renormalisation group (RG) flows for a Chern-Simons (CS) gauge theory of axions, has been reexamined and significantly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Leqian Chen , Nick E. Mavromatos , Sarben Sarkar

We analyze the radiative and nonradiative linearized variables in a gravity theory within the familiy of the nonprojectable Horava theories, the Horava theory at the kinetic-conformal point. There is no extra mode in this formulation, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-27 Jorge Bellorin , Alvaro Restuccia

At the present paper, it is studied cosmological solutions and its stability in the frame of F(R) Horava-Lifshitz gravity. The perturbations around general spatially flat FRW solutions are analyzed and it is showed that the stability of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-10 Diego Sáez-Gómez

We study the most general case of spherically symmetric vacuum solutions in the framework of the Covariant Horava Lifshitz Gravity, for an action that includes all possible higher order terms in curvature which are compatible with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-29 Jean Alexandre , Pavlos Pasipoularides

We study the effects of finite temperature on the dynamics of non-planar vortices in the classical, two-dimensional anisotropic Heisenberg model with XY- or easy-plane symmetry. To this end, we analyze a generalized Landau-Lifshitz equation…

We use the functional renormalization group equation for quantum gravity to construct a non-perturbative flow equation for modified gravity theories of the form $S = \int d^dx \sqrt{g} f(R)$. Based on this equation we show that certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Pedro F. Machado , Frank Saueressig

The running coupling constants (in particular, the gravitational one) are studied in asymptotically free GUTs and in finite GUTs in curved spacetime, with explicit examples. The running gravitational coupling is used to calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 E. Elizalde , C. O. Lousto , S. D. Odintsov , A. Romeo

Recently Horava proposed a renormalizable gravity theory with higher derivatives by abandoning the Lorenz invariance in UV. But there have been confusions regarding the extra scalar graviton mode and the consistency of the Horava model. I…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-17 Mu-in Park

We investigate the connection between Gravity's Rainbow and Horava-Lifshitz gravity, since both theories incorporate a modification in the UltraViolet regime which improves their quantum behavior at the cost of the Lorentz invariance loss.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-27 Remo Garattini , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We find candidate macroscopic gravity duals for scale-invariant but non-Lorentz invariant fixed points, which do not have particle number as a conserved quantity. We compute two-point correlation functions which exhibit novel behavior…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Shamit Kachru , Xiao Liu , Michael Mulligan

Motivated by conventional gauge theories, we consider a theory of gravity in which the Einstein-Hilbert action is replaced by a term that is quadratic in the Riemann tensor. We focus on cosmological solutions to the field equations in flat,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Lasenby , C. J. L. Doran , R. Heineke

Holographic RG flows are studied in an Einstein-dilaton theory with a general potential. The superpotential formalism is utilized in order to characterize and classify all solutions that are associated to asymptotically AdS space-times.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-08 Elias Kiritsis , Francesco Nitti , Leandro Silva Pimenta

We calculate parameters in the low energy gravitational effective action and the entanglement entropy in a wide class of theories characterized by improved ultraviolet (UV) behavior. These include i) local and non-local Lorentz invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Dmitry Nesterov , Sergey N. Solodukhin

When general relativity is augmented by quadratic gravity terms, it becomes a renormalisable theory of gravity. This theory may admit a non-Gaussian fixed point as envisaged in the asymptotic safety program, rendering the theory trustworthy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-06 Jean-Luc Lehners , K. S. Stelle

We examine non-relativistic holographic RG flows by working with Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theories which support geometries that break Lorentz invariance at some energy scale. We adopt the superpotential formalism, which helps us…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-17 Sera Cremonini , Li Li , Kyle Ritchie , Yuezhang Tang

Horava gravity theory possesses global Lifshitz space as a solution and has been conjectured to provide a natural framework for Lifshitz holography. We derive the conditions on the two derivative Horava gravity Lagrangian that are necessary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-06 Sayandeb Basu , Jishnu Bhattacharyya , David Mattingly , Matthew Roberson

Inclusion of $f(R)$ term in the action of Horava-Lifshitz quantum gravity with projectability but without detailed balance condition is investigated, where $R$ denotes the 3-spatial dimensional Ricci scalar. Conditions for the spin-0…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-02 Anzhong Wang

A theory of gravity with a generic action functional and minimally coupled to N matter fields has a nontrivial fixed point in the leading large N approximation. At this fixed point, the cosmological constant and Newton's constant are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Percacci

Classical higher-derivative gravity is investigated in the context of the holographic renormalization group (RG). We parametrize the Euclidean time such that one step of time evolution in (d+1)-dimensional bulk gravity can be directly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Masafumi Fukuma , So Matsuura

In the present paper, we canonically quantize an homogeneous and isotropic Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz cosmological model, with constant positive spatial sections and coupled to radiation. We consider the projectable version of that gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-07 G. Oliveira-Neto , L. G. Martins , G. A. Monerat , E. V. Corrêa Silva