3 papers
hep-th2025
Reflection positivity in a higher-derivative model with physical bound states of ghosts
Manuel Asorey, Gastão Krein, Miguel Pardina +1
The inclusion of higher derivatives is a necessary condition for a renormalizable or superrenormalizable local theory of quantum gravity. On the other hand, higher derivatives lead…
hep-th2025
New vacuum boundary effects of massive field theories
Manuel Asorey, Fernando Ezquerro, Miguel Pardina
Analytical arguments suggest that the Casimir energy in 2+1 dimensions for gauge theories exponentially decays with the distance between the boundaries. The phenomenon has also bee…
gr-qc2024
Stability of cosmological singularity-free solutions in quadratic gravity
M. Asorey, F. Ezquerro, M. Pardina
We introduce a large family of homogeneous and isotropic cosmological solutions in quadratic gravity which are singularity-free at early and late times. This kind of smooth solutio…