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In this Letter we derive the gravity field equations by varying the action for an ultraviolet complete quantum gravity. Then we consider the case of a static source term and we determine an exact black hole solution. As a result we find a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-22 Leonardo Modesto , John W. Moffat , Piero Nicolini

We study the matter one-loop quantum corrections to the gravitational sector in a gravity theory coupled with a nonlocal scalar field. We find that non-renormalizable divergences disappear when the propagator of the scalar field approaches…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-21 Takayuki Hirayama

This paper investigates the coupling of massive fermions to gravity within the context of a non-Abelian gauge theory, utilizing the effective field theory framework for quantum gravity. Specifically, we calculate the two-loop beta function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-19 M. Gomes , A. C. Lehum , A. J. da Silva

The non-perturbative renormalisation of quantum gravity is investigated allowing for the metric to be reparameterised along the RG flow, such that only the essential couplings constants are renormalised. This allows us to identify a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-11 Alessio Baldazzi , Kevin Falls

Path integral quantization of quantum gauge general relativity is discussed in this paper. First, we deduce the generating functional of green function with external fields. Based on this generating functional, the propagators of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-17 Ning Wu

Generic relevant deformations of Einstein's gravity theory contain additional degrees of freedom that have a multi-facetted stabilization dynamics on curved spacetimes. We show that these relevant degrees of freedom are self-protected…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-23 Felix Berkhahn , Dennis D. Dietrich , Stefan Hofmann

The starting point of this work is the original Einstein action, sometimes called the Gamma squared action. Continuing from our previous results, we study various modified theories of gravity following the Palatini approach. The metric and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-29 Christian G. Boehmer , Erik Jensko

We investigate the relation between the standard Newtonian equations for a pressureless fluid (dust) and the Einstein equations in a double expansion in small scales and small metric perturbations. We find that parts of the Einstein…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-17 Michael Kopp , Cora Uhlemann , Thomas Haugg

We prove perturbative renormalizability of projectable Horava gravity. The key element of the argument is the choice of a gauge which ensures the correct anisotropic scaling of the propagators and their uniform falloff at large frequencies…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-27 Andrei O. Barvinsky , Diego Blas , Mario Herrero-Valea , Sergey M. Sibiryakov , Christian F. Steinwachs

We investigate the exact renormalization group (RG) in Einstein gravity coupled to N-component spinor field, working in the effective average action formalism and background field method. The truncated evolution equation is obtained for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 L. N. Granda

A calculation of the one loop gravitational self-energy graph in non-anticommutative quantum gravity reveals that graviton loops are damped by internal momentum dependent factors in the modified propagator and the vertex functions. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-29 J. W. Moffat

Starting from the original Einstein action, sometimes called the Gamma squared action, we propose a new setup to formulate modified theories of gravity. This can yield a theory with second order field equations similar to those found in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-14 Christian G. Boehmer , Erik Jensko

The curvature-squared model of gravity, in the affine form proposed by Weyl and Yang, is deduced from a topological action in 4D. More specifically, we start from the Pontrjagin (or Euler) invariant. Using the BRST antifield formalism with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Eckehard W. Mielke

The coefficient of the dimensionally regularized two-loop R^3 divergence of (nonsupersymmetric) gravity theories has recently been shown to change when non-dynamical three forms are added to the theory, or when a pseudo-scalar is replaced…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-01 Zvi Bern , Huan-Hang Chi , Lance Dixon , Alex Edison

Horava gravity is a proposal for a UV completion of gravitation obtained by endowing the space-time manifold with a preferred foliation in space-like hypersurfaces. This allows for a power-counting renormalizable theory free of ghosts, at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 M. Herrero-Valea

The quantum gravity is formulated based on gauge principle. The model discussed in this paper has local gravitational gauge symmetry and gravitational field is represented by gauge potential. A preliminary study on gravitational gauge group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Ning Wu

In the framework of dimensional regularization, we propose a generalization of the renormalization group equations in the case of the perturbative quantum gravity that involves renormalization of the metric and of the higher order Riemann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Sergey N. Solodukhin

Attempts to merge Einsteinian gravity with Newtonian run into inconsistencies because in Newton's gravity time is absolute and the speed of gravity is infinite. Such an assumption was in a focus of attention of scientists in 19th century…

General Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Arkady L. Kholodenko

We argue that the Einstein gravity theory can be reformulated in almost Kahler (nonsymmetric) variables with effective symplectic form and compatible linear connection uniquely defined by a (pseudo) Riemannian metric. A class of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-24 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We discuss the structure of one-loop counterterms for the two-dimensional theory of gravitation in the covariant scheme and study the effect of quantum reparametrizations. Some of them are shown to be equivalent to the introduction of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Naftulin