ID: 0904.2833

Renormalizability of Massive Gravity in Three Dimensions

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Ichiro Oda
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We discuss renormalizability of a recently established, massive gravity theory with particular higher derivative terms in three space-time dimensions. It is shown that this massive gravity is certainly renormalizable as well as unitary, so it gives us a physically interesting toy model of perturbative quantum gravity in three dimensions.

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