Journal of High Energy Physics (May 2024)

Stability of the de-Sitter universe: one-loop nonlocal f (R) gravity

  • Haiyuan Feng,
  • Yi Liao,
  • Rong-Jia Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2024)115
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2024, no. 5
pp. 1 – 22

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Abstract With the method of the background field expansion, we investigate the one-loop quantization of the Euclidean nonlocal f (R) model in the de-Sitter universe. We obtain the ghost-free condition (GFC) based on the transformation from the Jordan frame to the Einstein frame and the classical stability condition (CSC) satisfied $${f}_{RR}^{\left(0\right)}-{\phi }_{0}{F}_{RR}^{\left(0\right)}<0$$ . We present the on-shell and off-shell one-loop effective action and quantum stability condition (QSC) by utilizing the generalized zeta-function. We find that under the fulfillment of GFC, CSC and QSC are inconsistent.

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