A new extension of Hořava-Lifshitz gravity and curing pathologies of the scalar graviton

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2011)028MaRDI QIDQ467324zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Taeyoon Moon, Phillial Oh, Mu-In Park

Publication date 3 November 2014

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.0752

zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravitymodels of quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We consider an extension of the Hov{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity with extra conformal symmetry by introducing a scalar field with higher order curvature terms. Relaxing the exact local Weyl symmetry, we construct an action with three free parameters which breaks local anisotropic Weyl symmetry but still preserves residual global Weyl symmetry. At low energies, it reduces to a Lorentz-violating scalar-tensor gravity. With a constant scalar field background and particular choices of the parameters, it reduces to the Hov{r}ava-Lifshitz (HL) gravity, but any perturbation from these particular configurations produces some non-trivial extensions of HL gravity. The perturbation analysis of the new extended HL gravity in the Minkowski background shows thatthe pathological behaviors of scalar graviton, i.e., ghost or instability problem, and strong coupling problem do not emerge up to cubic order as well as quadratic order.

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