Horndeski under the quantum loupe

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/10/010MaRDI QIDQ5070971zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lavinia Heisenberg, Johannes Noller, Jann Zosso

Publication date 14 April 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11655

zbMATH Keywords

dark energy theorygravitational waves/theorygravityquantum gravity phenomenology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Effective quantum field theories (81T12) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Matrix models and tensor models for quantum field theory (81T32) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Gravitational waves (83C35) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: With recent constraints on the propagation speed of gravitational waves, the class of scalar-tensor theories has significantly been reduced. We consider one of the surviving models still relevant for cosmology and investigate its radiative stability. The model contains operators with explicit breaking of the Galileon symmetry and we study whether they harm the re-organization of the effective field theory. Within the regime of validity we establish a non-renormalization theorem and show explicitly that the quantum corrections, to one-loop, do not detune the classical Lagrangian generating suppressed counterterms. This is striking since the non-renormalization theorem is established in the presence of a genuine Galileon symmetry breaking term.

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