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We study the asymptotic safety conjecture for quantum gravity in the presence of matter fields. A general line of reasoning is put forward explaining why gravitons dominate the high-energy behaviour, largely independently of the matter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-15 Nicolai Christiansen , Daniel F. Litim , Jan M. Pawlowski , Manuel Reichert

We discuss the conceptual ideas underlying the Asymptotic Safety approach to the nonperturbative renormalization of gravity. By now numerous functional renormalization group studies predict the existence of a suitable nontrivial ultraviolet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-23 Andreas Nink , Martin Reuter

We present and discuss well known conditions for ultraviolet finiteness and asymptotic safety. The requirements for complete absence of ultraviolet divergences in quantum field theories and existence of a non-trivial fixed point for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-22 Leslaw Rachwal

We review aspects of the interplay of asymptotically safe gravity with matter, focusing on the potential predictive power of the quantum scale-symmetry underlying the asymptotically safe fixed point. We explain how an asymptotically safe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-12 Astrid Eichhorn , Aaron Held

There seems to be a common prejudice that asymptotic safety is either incompatible with, or at best unrelated to, the other topics in the title. This is not the case. In fact, we show that 1) the existence of a fixed point with suitable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-13 R. Percacci , G. P. Vacca

The asymptotic-safety paradigm posits that the symmetry of quantum theories of gravity and matter is enhanced to quantum scale symmetry, i.e., scale symmetry in the presence of quantum fluctuations, at very high energies. To achieve such a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-16 Astrid Eichhorn , Marc Schiffer

We explore asymptotic safety of gravity-matter systems, discovering indications for a near-perturbative nature of these systems in the ultraviolet. Our results are based on the dynamical emergence of effective universality at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-19 Astrid Eichhorn , Stefan Lippoldt , Jan M. Pawlowski , Manuel Reichert , Marc Schiffer

We explore whether quantum gravity effects within the asymptotic safety paradigm can provide a predictive ultraviolet completion for Abelian gauge theories. We evaluate the effect of quantum gravity fluctuations on the running couplings in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-18 Nicolai Christiansen , Astrid Eichhorn

Asymptotically safe theories of gravitation have received great attention in recent times. In this framework an effective action embodying the basic features of the renormalized flow around the non-gaussian fixed point is derived and its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Alfio Bonanno

Over the last years the Asymptotic Safety program has matured into a serious candidate for a quantum theory of gravity compatible with observations. The rapid technical progress in computing renormalisation group flows for gravity and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Benjamin Knorr , Chris Ripken , Frank Saueressig

The asymptotic safety conjecture is examined for quantum gravity in four dimensions. Using the renormalisation group, we find evidence for an interacting UV fixed point for polynomial actions up to the 34th power in the Ricci scalar. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 Kevin Falls , Daniel F. Litim , Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos , Christoph Rahmede

All known examples of four dimensional quantum field theories with asymptotic freedom or asymptotic safety at weak coupling involve non-abelian gauge interactions. We demonstrate that this is not a coincidence: no weakly coupled fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-05 Andrew D. Bond , Daniel F. Litim

We provide a conceptual assessment of some aspects of fundamental quantum field theories of gravity in light of foundational aspects of the swampland program. On the one hand, asymptotically safe quantum gravity may provide a simple and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Ivano Basile , Benjamin Knorr , Alessia Platania , Marc Schiffer

According to the asymptotic-safety conjecture, the gravitational renormalization group flow features an ultraviolet-attractive fixed point that makes the theory renormalizable and ultraviolet complete. The existence of this fixed point…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-29 Alessia Platania

Asymptotic safety is an attractive scenario for the dynamics of quantum spacetime. Here, we work from a phenomenologically motivated point of view and emphasize that a viable dynamics for quantum gravity in our universe must account for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-12 Pietro Donà , Astrid Eichhorn , Peter Labus , Roberto Percacci

Weinberg's asymptotic safety scenario provides an elegant mechanism to construct a quantum theory of gravity within the framework of quantum field theory based on a non-Gau{\ss}ian fixed point of the renormalization group flow. In this work…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-01 Holger Gies , Benjamin Knorr , Stefan Lippoldt , Frank Saueressig

In this contribution, we discuss the asymptotic safety scenario for quantum gravity with a functional renormalisation group approach that disentangles dynamical metric fluctuations from the background metric. We review the state of the art…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-03 Jan M. Pawlowski , Manuel Reichert

Asymptotically safe quantum gravity is an approach to quantum gravity that achieves formulates a standard quantum field theory for the metric. Therefore, even the deep quantum gravity regime, that is expected to determine the true structure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-20 Astrid Eichhorn , Aaron Held

We use the Gross-Neveu model in 2<d<4 as a simple fermionic example for Weinberg's asymptotic safety scenario: despite being perturbatively nonrenormalizable, the model defines an interacting quantum field theory being valid to arbitrarily…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-22 Jens Braun , Holger Gies , Daniel D. Scherer

Combining asymptotically safe quantum gravity with a tensor field theory, we exhibit the first example of a theory with gravity and scalar fields in four dimensions which may realize asymptotic safety at a non-vanishing value of the scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-20 Astrid Eichhorn , Razvan Gurau , Zois Gyftopoulos