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We propose a nonlocal scalar-tensor model of gravity with pseudodifferential operators inspired by the effective action of p-adic string and string field theory on flat spacetime. An infinite number of derivatives act both on the metric and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-28 Gianluca Calcagni , Giuseppe Nardelli

Recently the non-local gravity theory has come out to be a good candidate for an effective field theory of quantum gravity and also it can provide rich phenomenology to understand late-time accelerating expansion of the universe. For any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-23 Utkarsh Kumar , Sukanta Panda , Avani Patel

The analysis of measurements of accelerated observers in Minkowski spacetime has led to the development of nonlocal special relativity theory. Inertia and gravitation are intimately connected in accordance with the principle of equivalence.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-11 Bahram Mashhoon

A nonlocal form of the effective gravitational action could cure the unboundedness of euclidean gravity with Einstein action. On sub-horizon length scales the modified gravitational field equations seem compatible with all present tests of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 C. Wetterich

The recent classical nonlocal generalization of Einstein's theory of gravitation is presented within the framework of general relativity via the introduction of a preferred frame field. The nonlocal generalization of Einstein's field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 B. Mashhoon

Metric theories of gravity are studied, beginning with a general action that is quadratic in curvature and allows infinite inverse powers of the d'Alembertian operator, resulting in infrared non-local extensions of general relativity. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Aindriu Conroy , Tomi Koivisto , Anupam Mazumdar , Ali Teimouri

We study a non-local scalar quantum field theory in flat spacetime derived from the dynamics of a scalar field on a causal set. We show that this non-local QFT contains a continuum of massive modes in any dimension. In 2 dimensions the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Alessio Belenchia , Dionigi M. T. Benincasa , Stefano Liberati

Even if the fundamental action of gravity is local, the corresponding quantum effective action, that includes the effect of quantum fluctuations, is a nonlocal object. These nonlocalities are well understood in the ultraviolet regime but…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-21 Enis Belgacem , Yves Dirian , Stefano Foffa , Michele Maggiore

In metric-affine theories of gravity such as the C-theories, the spacetime connection is associated to a metric that is nontrivially related to the physical metric. In this article, such theories are rewritten in terms of a single metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-06 Alexey Golovnev , Tomi Koivisto , Marit Sandstad

In this paper a nonlocal generalization of field quantization is suggested. This quantization principle presupposes the assumption that the commutator between a field operator an the operator of the canonical conjugated variable referring…

General Physics · Physics 2016-09-02 Martin Kober

We have recently presented a manifestly local and general coordinate invariant formulation of a nonlocal approach to the cosmological constant problem. In this article, we investigate quantum effects from both matter and gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-28 Ichiro Oda

We propose a nonlocal field theory for gravity in presence of matter consistent with perturbative unitarity, quantum finiteness, and other essential classical properties that we are going to list below. First, the theory exactly reproduces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-09 Leonardo Modesto

We investigate the cosmological implications of an effective gravitational action, inspired by Sakharov's idea of induced gravity, containing non-local contributions from the operator $\left(\Box +\beta \right)^{-1} R$. The $\beta$ term is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-23 Leonardo Giani , Oliver Fabio Piattella

Quantum theories of gravity are generally expected to have some degree of non-locality, with familiar local physics emerging only in a particular limit. Perturbative quantum gravity around backgrounds with isometries and compact Cauchy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-23 Molly Kaplan , Donald Marolf , Xuyang Yu , Ying Zhao

We consider a linearized, effective quantum theory of gravitation in which gravity weakens at energies higher than ~10^-3 eV in order to accommodate the apparent smallness of the cosmological constant. Such a theory predicts departures from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. R. Caldwell , Daniel Grin

Effective field theories describing gravity coupled to matter are investigated, allowing for operators of arbitrary mass dimension. Terms violating local Lorentz and diffeomorphism invariance while preserving internal gauge symmetries are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Alan Kostelecky , Zonghao Li

The lagrangian-based Standard-Model Extension framework offers a broad description of possible gravitational effects from local Lorentz violation. In this talk, I review the status of the theoretical and phenomenological work in this area.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Quentin G. Bailey

Nonlocal gravity has been shown to provide a phenomenologically viable infrared modification of GR. A natural question is whether the required nonlocality can emerge from perturbative quantum loop corrections due to light particles. We show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-06 Michele Maggiore

Nonlocal gravity (NLG) is a classical nonlocal generalization of Einstein's theory of gravitation developed in close analogy with the nonlocal electrodynamics of media. It appears that the nonlocal aspect of the universal gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-12 Mahmood Roshan , Bahram Mashhoon

We discuss the nonlocal nature of quantum mechanics and the link with relativistic quantum mechanics such as formulated by quantum field theory. We use here a nonlocal quantum field theory (NLQFT) which is finite, satisfies Poincar\'e…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-12 Robin Landry , John Moffat