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Unimodular gravity is characterized by an extra condition with respect to General Relativity: the determinant of the metric is constant. This extra condition leads to a more restricted class of invariance by coordinate transformation. Even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-14 Júlio C. Fabris , Marcelo H. Alvarenga , Mahamadou Hamani-Daouda , Hermano Velten

We consider a model of gravity and matter fields which is invariant only under unimodular general coordinate transformations (GCT). The determinant of the metric is treated as a separate field which transforms as a scalar under unimodular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-04 Pankaj Jain , Atul Jaiswal , Purnendu Karmakar , Gopal Kashyap , Naveen K. Singh

Unimodular gravity (UG) is an interesting theory that may explain why the cosmological constant is extremely small, in contrast to general relativity (GR). The theory has only the transverse diffeomorphism invariance and this causes lots of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-27 Taichiro Kugo , Ryuichi Nakayama , Nobuyoshi Ohta

Unimodular gravity is based on a modification of the usual Einstein-Hilbert action that allows one to recover general relativity with a dynamical cosmological constant. It also has the interesting property of providing, as the momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Dah-Wei Chiou , Marc Geiller

In nonperturbative formulation of quantum field theory (QFT), the vacuum state is characterized by the Wilsonian renormalization group (RG) flow of Feynman type field correlators. Such a flow is a parametric family of ultraviolet (UV)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-24 Andras Laszlo , Zsigmond Tarcsay

We consider the most general action for gravity which is quadratic in curvature. In this case first order and second order formalisms are not equivalent. This framework is a good candidate for a unitary and renormalizable theory of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-06 Enrique Alvarez , Jesus Anero , Sergio Gonzalez-Martin , Raquel Santos-Garcia

We work out the one-loop and order $\kappa^2 m_\phi^2$ UV divergent contributions, coming from Unimodular Gravity and General Relativity, to the S matrix element of the scattering process $\phi + \phi\rightarrow \phi + \phi$ in a $\lambda…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-15 Sergio González-Martín , Carmelo P. Martin

BRST-invariant action of general relativity in the unimodular gauge proposed by Baulieu is studied without using perturbative expansions. The expression for the path integral in the unimodular gauge is reduced to a form in which a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-16 Ryuichi Nakayama

We compute the lowest order gravitational UV divergent radiative corrections to the S matrix element of the $fermion + fermion\rightarrow fermion + fermion$ scattering process in the massive Yukawa theory, coupled either to Unimodular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-18 Sergio Gonzalez-Martin , Carmelo P. Martin

Unimodular Gravity (UG) is a restricted version of General Relativity (GR) in which the determinant of the metric is a fixed function and the field equations are given by the trace-free part of the full Einstein equations. The background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-02 Abhishek Basak , Ophélia Fabre , S. Shankaranarayanan

In this comment on arXiv:2308.07360 it is pointed out that though the authors raise an important question on the prevailing presentations of the unimodular gravity their own presentation is incomplete as well as confusing equating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 S. C. Tiwari

We evaluate the phase diagram of quantum gravity within a fully diffeomorphism-invariant renormalisation group approach. The construction is based on the geometrical or Vilkovisky-DeWitt effective action. We also resolve the difference…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-20 Ivan Donkin , Jan M. Pawlowski

Asymptotic Safety provides a mechanism for constructing a consistent and predictive quantum theory of gravity valid on all length scales. Its key ingredient is a non-Gaussian fixed point of the gravitational renormalization group flow which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Jorn Biemans , Alessia Platania , Frank Saueressig

In this paper the non-local finite quantum-gravity framework is incorporated into the Complex non-Riemannian Holomorphic Unified Field Theory formulated on a complexified four-dimensional manifold. By introducing entire-function regulators…

General Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 J. W. Moffat , E. J. Thompson

We construct a manifestly diffeomorphism invariant Wilsonian (Exact) Renormalization Group for classical gravity, and begin the construction for quantum gravity. We demonstrate that the effective action can be computed without gauge fixing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-08 Tim R. Morris , Anthony W. H. Preston

The Hamiltonian formalism of the generalized unimodular gravity theory, which was recently suggested as a model of dark energy, is shown to be a complicated example of constrained dynamical system. The set of its canonical constraints has a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-07 A. O. Barvinsky , N. Kolganov , A. Kurov , D. Nesterov

Unimodular Gravity is one of the oldest geometric gravity theory alternative to General Relativity. Essentially, it is based on the Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian with an additional constraint on the determinant of the metric. It can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-31 Marcelo H. Alvarenga , Júlio C. Fabris , Hermano Velten

We show that the Horava theory for the completion of General Relativity at UV scales can be interpreted as a gauge fixed theory, and it can be extended to an invariant theory under the full group of four-dimensional diffeomorphisms. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Cristiano Germani , Alex Kehagias , Konstadinos Sfetsos

It is shown that the one-loop effective action of unimodular gravity is the same as that of ordinary gravity, restricted to unimodular metrics. The only difference is in the treatment of the global scale degree of freedom and of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-01 R. Percacci

General Relativity is usually formulated as a theory with gauge invariance under the diffeomorphism group, but there is a 'dilaton' formulation where it is in addition invariant under Weyl transformations, and a 'unimodular' formulation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-11 Steffen Gielen , Rodrigo de Leon Ardon , Roberto Percacci