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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
Volume 82, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-11024-2
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- INFN within the Iniziativa Specifica QFT-HEP
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [818066]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [EXC-2181/1 - 390900948]
- European Research Council (ERC) [818066] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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This study investigates the gravitational backreaction generated by coupling a general conformal sector to external, classical gravity, and discusses the regularization of topological Gauss-Bonnet and Weyl terms in these actions. It also explores both local and nonlocal expressions of these theories and shows possible conclusions for nonlocal EGB theories.
We investigate the gravitational backreaction, generated by coupling a general conformal sector to external, classical gravity, as described by a conformal anomaly effective action. We address the issues raised by the regularization of the topological Gauss-Bonnet and Weyl terms in these actions and the use of dimensional regularization (DR). We discuss both their local and nonlocal expressions, as possible IR and UV descriptions of conformal theories, below and above the conformal breaking scale. Our discussion overlaps with several recent studies of dilaton gravities - obtained via a certain singular limit of the Einstein-Gauss- Bonnet (EGB) theory - originally introduced as a way to bypass Lovelock's theorem. We show that nonlocal, purely gravitational realizations of such EGB theories, quadratic in the dilaton field, beside their local quartic forms, are possible, by a finite renormalization of the Euler density. Such nonlocal versions, which are deprived of any scale, can be expanded, at least around flat space, in terms of the combination R?(-1 )times multiple variations of the anomaly functional, as pointed out in recent studies at d = 4. Similar conclusions can be drawn for the proposed nonlocal EGB theory. The expansion emerges from previous investigations of the anomalous conformal Ward identities that constrain such theories around the flat spacetime limit in momentum space.
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