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We derive renormalised finite functional flow equations for quantum field theories in real and imaginary time that incorporate scale transformations of the renormalisation conditions, hence implementing a flowing renormalisation. The flows…

In a companion paper arXiv:2510.27676, we introduced a non-perturbative classical renormalisation group (RG) flow equation as a novel method for treating strongly interacting problems in general relativity, with a prominent application to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-22 F. Gutiérrez , K. Falls , A. Codello

We revisit the holographic renormalization group (RG) setting in which a 4-dimensional ($4d$) quantum field theory at a finite cutoff corresponds to/is described by the Einstein gravity on a part of AdS$_{5}$ space, cutoff at a finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 H. Adami , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , V. Taghiloo

The formulation of an exact functional renormalization group equation for Quantum Einstein Gravity necessitates that the underlying effective average action depends on two metrics, a dynamical metric giving the vacuum expectation value of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-04 Elisa Manrique , Martin Reuter , Frank Saueressig

Implementing the Wilsonian renormalization group (RG) transformation in a nonperturbative way, we construct an effective holographic dual description with an emergent extradimension identified with an RG scale. Taking the large$-N$ limit,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-09 Ki-Seok Kim , Mitsuhiro Nishida , Yoonseok Choun

Considering the Einstein-Hilbert truncation for the running action in (euclidean) quantum gravity, we derive the renormalization group equations for the cosmological and Newton constant. We find that these equations admit only the Gaussian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-19 C. Branchina , V. Branchina , F. Contino , A. Pernace

Realizing a quantum theory for gravity based on Asymptotic Safety hinges on the existence of a non-Gaussian fixed point of the theory's renormalization group flow. In this work, we use the functional renormalization group equation for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Maximilian Demmel , Frank Saueressig , Omar Zanusso

We derive an exact functional renormalization group equation for the projectable version of Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity. The flow equation encodes the gravitational degrees of freedom in terms of the lapse function, shift vector and spatial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Stefan Rechenberger , Frank Saueressig

Functional Renormalization Group Equations constitute a powerful tool to encode the perturbative and non-perturbative properties of a physical system. We present an algorithm to systematically compute the expansion of such flow equations in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-23 Dario Benedetti , Kai Groh , Pedro F. Machado , Frank Saueressig

A new framework for exploiting information about the renormalization group (RG) behavior of gravity in a dynamical context is discussed. The Einstein-Hilbert action is RG-improved by replacing Newton's constant and the cosmological constant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Reuter , H. Weyer

We develop a renormalization-group formalism for non-renormalizable theories and apply it to Einstein gravity theory coupled to a scalar field with the Lagrangian $L=\sqrt{g} [R U(\phi)-{1/2} G(\phi) g^{\mu\nu} \partial_{\mu}\phi…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 A. O. Barvinsky , A. Yu. Kamenshchik , I. P. Karmazin

The renormalization group flow of unimodular quantum gravity is investigated within two different classes of truncations of the flowing effective action. In particular, we search for non-trivial fixed-point solutions for polynomial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-18 Gustavo P. de Brito , Antonio D. Pereira , Arthur F. Vieira

We study asymptotically safe gravity with Einstein-Hilbert truncation taking into account the renormalization group running of both gravitational and cosmological constants. We show the classical behavior of the theory is equivalent to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-03 Yi-Fu Cai , Damien A. Easson

We find considerable evidence supporting the conjecture that four-dimensional Quantum Einstein Gravity is ``asymptotically safe'' in Weinberg's sense. This would mean that the theory is likely to be nonperturbatively renormalizable and thus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Lauscher , M. Reuter

We present a nonperturbative renormalization group solution of the Gell-Mann--Levy $\sigma$-model which was originally proposed as a phenomenological description of the dynamics of nucleons and mesons. In our version of the model the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 A. S. Johnson , J. A. McNeil , J. R. Shepard

We study the exact renormalization group (RG) in $R^2$-gravity in the effective average action formalism using the background field method. The truncated evolution equation (where truncation is made to low-derivatives functionals space) for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 L. N. Granda , S. D. Odintsov

We investigate the monotonicity of the renormalization group (RG) flow from the perspectives of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Applying the Martin-Siggia-Rose formalism to the Wilsonian RG transformation, we incorporate the RG flow…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-29 Ki-Seok Kim , Shinsei Ryu

We analyze the conceptual role of background independence in the application of the effective average action to quantum gravity. Insisting on a background independent renormalization group (RG) flow the coarse graining operation must be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-29 Martin Reuter , Holger Weyer

Asymptotic Safety provides a mechanism for constructing a consistent and predictive quantum theory of gravity valid on all length scales. Its key ingredient is a non-Gaussian fixed point of the gravitational renormalization group flow which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Jorn Biemans , Alessia Platania , Frank Saueressig

We make a few general comments on the Renormalization Group flows in certain Yang-Mills theories in the vicinity of phase transitions. We then present a model in d=5 with non-periodic boundary conditions where a possible RG flow starts from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-09 Nikos Irges