Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2004-12-21
Phys.Rev.D71:064005,2005
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
LaTeX file, 30 pages, 5 figures. Several misprints in the intermediate expressions corrected
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.71.064005
Higher derivative theory is one of the important models of quantum gravity, renormalizable and asymptotically free within the standard perturbative approach. We consider the $4-\epsilon$ renormalization group for this theory, an approach which proved fruitful in $2-\epsilon$ models. A consistent formulation in dimension $n=4-\epsilon$ requires taking quantum effects of the topological term into account, hence we perform calculation which is more general than the ones done before. In the special $n=4$ case we confirm a known result by Fradkin-Tseytlin and Avramidi-Barvinsky, while contributions from topological term do cancel. In the more general case of $4-\epsilon$ renormalization group equations there is an extensive ambiguity related to gauge-fixing dependence. As a result, physical interpretation of these equations is not universal unlike we treat $\epsilon$ as a small parameter. In the sector of essential couplings one can find a number of new fixed points, some of them have no analogs in the $n=4$ case.
Berredo-Peixoto Guilherme de
Shapiro Ilya L.
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