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arxiv: 1410.6360 · v1 · pith:XWWTWPTNnew · submitted 2014-10-23 · ✦ hep-th · gr-qc

Horava gravity with mixed derivative terms

classification ✦ hep-th gr-qc
keywords termstheorybeenconsiderdiscussdivergencesgravityhorava
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Horava gravity has been constructed so as to exhibit anisotropic scaling in the ultraviolet, as this renders the theory power-counting renormalizable. However, when coupled to matter, the theory has been shown to suffer from quadratic divergences. A way to cure these divergences is to add terms with both time and space derivatives. We consider this extended version of the theory in detail. We perform a perturbative analysis that includes all modes, determine the propagators and discuss how including mixed-derivative terms affects them. We also consider the Lifshitz scalar with mixed-derivative terms as a toy model for power counting arguments and discuss the influence of such terms on renormalizability.

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