Asymptotic freedom in Hořava-Lifshitz gravity.

نویسندگان

  • Giulio D'Odorico
  • Frank Saueressig
  • Marrit Schutten
چکیده

We use the Wetterich equation for foliated spacetimes to study the renormalization group flow of projectable Hořava-Lifshitz gravity coupled to n Lifshitz scalars. Using novel results for anisotropic heat kernels, the matter-induced beta functions for the gravitational couplings are computed explicitly. The renormalization group flow exhibits an UV attractive anisotropic Gaussian fixed point where Newton's constant vanishes and the extra scalar mode decouples. This fixed point ensures that the theory is asymptotically free in the large-n expansion, indicating that projectable Hořava-Lifshitz gravity is perturbatively renormalizable. Notably, the fundamental fixed point action does not obey detailed balance.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 113 17  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014