Covariant effective action for generalized Proca theories

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/01/062MaRDI QIDQ5863323zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sukanta Panda, Abbas Altafhussain Tinwala, Archit Vidyarthi

Publication date 11 March 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04391

zbMATH Keywords

Gauss-Bonnet-Lovelock-Horndeski-Palatini etc gravity theoriesmodified gravityquantum cosmologyquantum field theory on curved space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We investigate quantum stability of the generalised Proca theories in curved spacetime treating gravity as a dynamical field. To compute the quantum gravitational corrections we evaluate divergent part of the effective action at one loop level. We employ Vilkovisky-DeWitt formalism for this task which gives us a gauge invariant and gauge condition independent effective action. It is shown that the quantum corrections are suppressed by a UV cutoff parametrically higher than the Proca mass if the coupling constants are restricted to lie in a certain range. Furthermore it is shown that the quantum corrections remain suppressed even at scales where classical non-linearities dominate over kinetic terms allowing Vainshtein mechanism to work.

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