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On selfdual spin-connections and Asymptotic Safety

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-12-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We explore Euclidean quantum gravity using the tetrad field together with a selfdual or anti-selfdual spin-connection as the basic field variables. Setting up a functional renormalization group (RG) equation of a new type which is particularly suitable for the corresponding theory space we determine the non-perturbative RG flow within a two-parameter truncation suggested by the Holst action. We find that the (anti-)selfdual theory is likely to be asymptotically safe. The existing evidence for its non-perturbative renormalizability is comparable to that of Einstein-Cartan gravity without the selfduality condition.

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@article{arxiv.1509.09122,
  title  = {On selfdual spin-connections and Asymptotic Safety},
  author = {Ulrich Harst and Martin Reuter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.09122},
  year   = {2015}
}

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14 pages, 4 fgures