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20162026
most citedHiggs Starobinsky Inflation

103 citations · 360 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

hep-th2026

Off-shell equivalence in quantum field theory and gravity

Iberê Kuntz, Stefano Liberati

Field redefinitions connect many formulations of the same physics, but the standard equivalence theorem is an on-shell result and cannot be used to decide when two quantum descript…

hep-th2025

The effective field theory of the gravitational functional measure

Henrique Knopki, Iberê Kuntz

The gravitational path integral measure has been the subject of an increasing interest lately, and no conclusive answer yet exists for its correct form. In this paper, we adopt eff…

hep-th2025

Transport and response coefficients in second-order dissipative relativistic hydrodynamics with quantum corrections: probing the quark-gluon plasma

I. Kuntz, R. da Rocha

A functional measure encompasses quantum corrections and is explored in the fluid/gravity correspondence. Corrections to response and transport coefficients in the second-order dis…

hep-ph2025

Cosmological phase transitions from the functional measure

Bruno Berganholi, Gláuber C. Dorsch, Iberê Kuntz +2

We investigate how competitive gravitational wave detectors can be to current and near-future colliders in probing a model where the new physics is completely encapsulated in a mod…

gr-qc2024

Euclidean actions and static black hole entropy in teleparallel theories

Iberê Kuntz, Gregorio Paci, Omar Zanusso

It is well-known that the results by Bekenstein, Gibbons and Hawking on the thermodynamics of black holes can be reproduced quite simply in the Euclidean path integral approach to…

hep-th2024

Constraining the UV with the electroweak effective action

Iberê Kuntz, Amanda Malagi

By considering an arbitrary bare action describing BSM physics, we use the Barvinsky-Vilkovisky resummation to obtain the most general non-local electroweak effective action at sec…

gr-qc2024★ 7 cited

When gravitational decoupling and quantum gravity (re)unite

R. Casadio, I. Kuntz, R. da Rocha

The effective action for quantum gravity coupled to matter contains corrections arising from the functional measure. We analyse the effect of such corrections for anisotropic self-…

hep-th2023

Massive graviton from diffeomorphism invariance

João M. L. de Freitas, Iberê Kuntz

We describe a mechanism in which the graviton acquires a mass from the functional measure without violating the diffeomorphism symmetry nor including Stückelberg fields. Since gaug…

hep-th2022★ 11 cited

Transport coefficients in AdS/CFT and quantum gravity corrections due to a functional measure

Iberê Kuntz, Roldao da Rocha

The presence of a functional measure is scrutinized on both sides of the dual gauge/gravity correspondence. Corrections to the transport coefficients in relativistic hydrodynamics…

hep-th2022★ 20 cited

Minimum length (scale) in Quantum Field Theory, Generalized Uncertainty Principle and the non-renormalisability of gravity

Roberto Casadio, Wenbin Feng, Ibere Kuntz +1

The notions of minimum geometrical length and minimum length scale are discussed with reference to correlation functions obtained from in-in and in-out amplitudes in quantum field…

hep-th2022★ 7 cited

Background independence and field redefinitions in quantum gravity

Roberto Casadio, Alexander Kamenshchik, Iberê Kuntz

It is generally believed that a full-fledged theory of quantum gravity should exhibit background independence and diffeomorphism invariance. In its most general form, the latter co…

gr-qc2022★ 4 cited

Binary mergers in bootstrapped Newtonian gravity: mass gap and black hole area law

Roberto Casadio, Iberê Kuntz, Octavian Micu

We study binary mergers in bootstrapped Newtonian gravity, where higher-order couplings are added to the non-relativistic Lagrangian for the Newtonian potential. In this theory, th…

gr-qc2022★ 2 cited

Approximating compact objects in bootstrapped Newtonian gravity: use of the canonical potential

Roberto Casadio, Iberê Kuntz, Octavian Micu

We consider compact objects in a classical and non-relativistic generalisation of Newtonian gravity, dubbed bootstrapped Newtonian theory, which includes higher-order derivative in…

hep-th2022

Covariant singularities: a brief review

Roberto Casadio, Alexander Kamenshchik, Iberê Kuntz

The Hawking-Penrose theorem is not covariant under field redefinitions. Should the invariance under such transformations be a true principle in Nature, spacetime singularities beco…

hep-th2021★ 9 cited

Quantum fields in teleparallel gravity: renormalization at one-loop

Roberto Casadio, Iberê Kuntz, Gregorio Paci

We consider the quantization of matter fields in a background described by the teleparallel equivalent to general relativity. The presence of local Lorentz and gauge symmetries giv…

gr-qc2021★ 12 cited

Effective metric outside bootstrapped Newtonian sources

Roberto Casadio, Andrea Giusti, Iberê Kuntz +1

We determine the complete space-time metric from the bootstrapped Newtonian potential generated by a static spherically symmetric source in the surrounding vacuum. This metric cont…

hep-th2021★ 14 cited

Covariant singularities in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity

Roberto Casadio, Alexander Kamenshchik, Iberê Kuntz

It is rather well-known that spacetime singularities are not covariant under field redefinitions. A manifestly covariant approach to singularities in classical gravity was proposed…

gr-qc2020

Absence of covariant singularities in pure gravity

Roberto Casadio, Alexander Kamenshchik, Iberê Kuntz

The assumptions of the Hawking-Penrose singularity theorem are not covariant under field redefinitions. Thus we propose to study singularities in field space, where the spacetime m…

hep-th2020★ 6 cited

Revisiting the minimum length in the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism

Roberto Casadio, Iberê Kuntz

The existence of a minimum length in quantum gravity is investigated by computing the in-in expectation value of the proper distance in the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. No minimum…

gr-qc2020★ 10 cited

Bootstrapped Newtonian quantum gravity

Roberto Casadio, Iberê Kuntz

We compute quantum corrections for the gravitational potential obtained by including a derivative self-coupling in its classical dynamics as a toy model for analysing quantum gravi…

hep-th2019★ 18 cited

Singularity avoidance in quantum gravity

Iberê Kuntz, Roberto Casadio

The purpose of this work is to investigate the consequences of quantum gravity for the singularity problem. We study the higher-derivative terms that invariably appear in any quant…

hep-th2019

Exorcising ghosts in quantum gravity

Iberê Kuntz

We remark that Ostrogradsky ghosts in higher-derivative gravity, with a finite number of derivatives, are fictitious as they result from an unjustified truncation performed in a co…

hep-th2019★ 7 cited

One-loop corrections to in AdS/CFT

Iberê Kuntz, Roldão da Rocha

We study quantum corrections at one-loop order to the shear viscosity to entropy ratio by implementing the Vilkovisky-Barvinsky effective action in asymptotically Anti-de Sitter sp…

hep-th2019★ 18 cited

GUP black hole remnants in quadratic gravity

Iberê Kuntz, Roldao da Rocha

The Hawking radiation of static, spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat solutions in quadratic gravity, is here explored. The emitted fermions are governed by the Dirac equatio…