Super-renormalizable and finite gravitational theories

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DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2014.10.015zbMATH Open1326.83061arXiv1407.8036OpenAlexW2076491654WikidataQ56607811 ScholiaQ56607811MaRDI QIDQ895358FDOQ895358


Authors: Leonardo Modesto, L. Rachwał Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 2 December 2015

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We hereby introduce and extensively study a class of non-polynomial higher derivative theories of gravity that realize a ultraviolet (UV) completion of Einstein general relativity. These theories are unitary (ghost free) and at most only one-loop divergences survive. The outcome is a class of theories super-renormalizable in even dimension and finite in odd dimension. Moreover, we explicitly prove in D=4 that there exists an extension of the theory that is completely finite and all the beta functions vanish even at one-loop. These results can be easily extended in extra dimensions and it is likely that the higher dimensional theory can be made finite too. Therefore we have the possibility for "finite quantum gravity" in any dimension.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.8036




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