In the present work we investigate the Newtonian limit of higher-derivative gravity theories with more than four derivatives in the action, including the non-analytic logarithmic terms resulting from one-loop quantum corrections. The first part of the paper deals with the occurrence of curvature singularities of the metric in the classical models. It is shown that in the case of local theories, even though the curvature scalars of the metric are regular, invariants involving derivatives of curvatures can still diverge. Indeed, we prove that if the action contains $2n+6$ derivatives of the metric in both the scalar and the spin-2 sectors, then all the curvature-derivative invariants with at most $2n$ covariant derivatives of the curvatures are regular, while there exist scalars with $2n+2$ derivatives that are singular. The regularity of all these invariants can be achieved in some classes of nonlocal gravity theories. In the second part of the paper, we show that the leading logarithmic quantum corrections do not change the regularity of the Newtonian limit. Finally, we also consider the infrared limit of these solutions and verify the universality of the leading quantum correction to the potential in all the theories investigated in the paper.
New Cosmological Solutions in Nonlocal Modified Gravity
考虑了具有$Λ$项的非定域修正引力的宇宙学性质，其中非定域性是$R \mathcal{F}(\Box) R$型的。利用形式为$\Box R = r R +s,$的解析式，我们找到了几个a（t）非奇异的反弹宇宙学解，它们对应于空间曲率参数k的所有三个值。我们还从F（R）理论的角度讨论了这种改进的引力模型。
The stability of the de-Sitter universe in nonlocal gravity
School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Shanxi Normal University（山西师范大学物理与电子工程学院）；College of Physical Science and Technology, Hebei University（河北大学物理科学与技术学院）
