Tuesday, February 5, 2013

1302.0532 (Tirthabir Biswas et al.)

Nonlocal theories of gravity: the flat space propagator    [PDF]

Tirthabir Biswas, Tomi Koivisto, Anupam Mazumdar
It was recently found that there are classes of nonlocal gravity theories that are free of ghosts and singularities in their Newtonian limit [PRL, 108 (2012), 031101]. In these proceedings, a detailed and pedagogical derivation of a main result, the flat space propagator for an arbitrary covariant metric theory of gravitation, is presented. The result is applied to analyse f(R) models, Gauss-Bonnet theory, Weyl-squared gravity and the potentially asymptotically free nonlocal theories.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.0532

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