On the extra mode and inconsistency of Hoava gravity

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Blas, D ^a   Pujolas O ^b   Sibiryakov, S ^a,c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Models of Quantum Gravity; Renormalization Group; Space Time Symmetries

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350746357     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/10/029     Document Type: Article

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