2011

Fourth order spatial derivative gravity

Bemfica, F. S., Gomes, M.

Understand

In this work we study a modified theory of gravity that contains up to fourth order spatial derivatives as a model for the Horava-Lifshitz gravity.

  • The propagator is evaluated and, as a result, it is obtained one extra pole corresponding to a spin two nonrelativistic massless particle, an extra term which jeopardizes renormalizability, besides the unexpected general relativity unmodified propagator.
  • Then, unitarity is proved at the tree-level, where the general relativity pole has shown to have no dynamics, remaining only the two degrees of freedom of the new pole.
  • Next, the nonrelativistic effective potential is determined from a scattering process of two identical massive gravitationally interacting bosons.

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