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Global Flows in Quantum Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-02-17 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study four-dimensional quantum gravity using non-perturbative renormalization group methods. We solve the corresponding equations for the fully momentum-dependent propagator, Newton's coupling and the cosmological constant. For the first time, we obtain a global phase diagram where the non-Gaussian ultraviolet fixed point of asymptotic safety is connected via smooth trajectories to a classical infrared fixed point. The theory is therefore ultraviolet complete and deforms smoothly into classical gravity as the infrared limit is approached.

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@article{arxiv.1403.1232,
  title  = {Global Flows in Quantum Gravity},
  author = {Nicolai Christiansen and Benjamin Knorr and Jan M. Pawlowski and Andreas Rodigast},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.1232},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

18 pages,7 figures, typos in introduction and appendix A fixed

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