Published February 15, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Covariant renormalizable gravity and its FRW cosmology

  • 1. Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602 (Japan)
  • 2. Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats (ICREA) and Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai (IEEC-CSIC), Campus UAB, Facultat de Ciencies, Torre C5-Par-2a pl, E-08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona (Spain)

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We consider the diffeomorphism invariant gravity coupled with the ideal fluid in the nonstandard way. The Lorentz invariance of the graviton propagator in such a theory considered as perturbation over flat background turns out to be broken due to the nonstandard coupling with the ideal fluid. As a result the behavior of the propagator in the ultraviolet/infrared region indicates that some versions of such theory are (super-)renormalizable ones (with appearance of only physical transverse modes). The Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology in some cases may be different from the one in general relativity with the possible power law inflationary stage.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
81
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 043001-043001.5
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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