Gauge dependence of momentum running in higher-derivative gravity
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| author | Buccio, Diego De Brito, Gustavo P. Parente, Luca |
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| contents | Recent works have argued that improved one-loop beta-functions capturing the physical momentum dependence of one-loop corrected higher-derivative gravity theories are the most suitable to describe their high-energy behaviour. This work critically tests the validity of this claim. We compute the explicit gauge dependence of the one-loop momentum running of curvature-squared operators in quadratic gravity and conformal gravity using the background field method. We find them to be gauge dependent, and we discuss the implications of this result for the theory and its physical predictivity. |
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| spellingShingle | Gauge dependence of momentum running in higher-derivative gravity Buccio, Diego De Brito, Gustavo P. Parente, Luca High Energy Physics - Theory General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Recent works have argued that improved one-loop beta-functions capturing the physical momentum dependence of one-loop corrected higher-derivative gravity theories are the most suitable to describe their high-energy behaviour. This work critically tests the validity of this claim. We compute the explicit gauge dependence of the one-loop momentum running of curvature-squared operators in quadratic gravity and conformal gravity using the background field method. We find them to be gauge dependent, and we discuss the implications of this result for the theory and its physical predictivity. |
| title | Gauge dependence of momentum running in higher-derivative gravity |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15835 |