2 papers
hep-th2026
Ultraviolet Completion of the Big Bang in Quadratic Gravity
Ruolin Liu, Jerome Quintin, Niayesh Afshordi
We present a quantum quadratic gravity inflationary scenario that can accommodate the new cosmological constraints, which have disfavored Starobinsky inflation. The theory is asymp…
hep-th2025
Conformal Cores of Quantum Black Holes in Quadratic Gravity
Ruolin Liu, Jerome Quintin, Niayesh Afshordi
We explore the possibility that quadratic gravity, as a renormalizable theory, describes the interior of quantum black holes. We find new exact power-law solutions to pure quadrati…