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We show that, by using amplitude-based resummation techniques for Feynman's formulation of Einstein's theory, we get quantum field theoretic 'first principles' predictions for the UV fixed-point values of the dimensionless gravitational and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-13 B. F. L. Ward

In Weinberg's asymptotic safety approach, a finite dimensional critical surface for a UV stable fixed point generates a theory of quantum gravity with a finite number of physical parameters. We argue that, in an extension of Feynman's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-14 B. F. L. Ward

We use the amplitude-based resummation of Feynman`s formulation of Einstein`s theory to arrive at a UV finite approach to quantum gravity. We show that we recover the UV fixed point recently claimed by the exact field-space renormalization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-05 B. F. L. Ward

We present an overview of the phenomenological implications of the theory of resummed quantum gravity. We discuss its prediction for the cosmological constant in the context of the Planck scale cosmology of Bonanno and Reuter, its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-29 B. F. L. Ward

We show that, by using recently developed exact resummation techniques based on the extension of the methods of Yennie, Frautschi and Suura to Feynman's formulation of Einstein's theory, we get quantum field theoretic descriptions for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-04 B. F. L. Ward

We argue that our recent success in using our resummed quantum gravity approach to Einstein's general theory of relativity, in the context of the Planck scale cosmology formulation of Bonanno and Reuter, to estimate the value of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 B. F. L. Ward

We use our resummed quantum gravity approach to Einstein's general theory of relativity in the context of the Planck scale cosmology formulation of Bonanno and Reuter to estimate the value of the cosmological constant as \rho_\Lambda…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-05 B. F. L. Ward

We use our resummed quantum gravity approach to Einstein's general theory of relativity in the context of the Planck scale cosmology formulation of Bonanno and Reuter to estimate the value of the cosmological constant such that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-06 B. F. L. Ward

We give a status report on the theory of resummed quantum gravity. We recapitulate the use of our resummed quantum gravity approach to Einstein's general theory of relativity to estimate the value of the cosmological constant as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-26 B. F. L. Ward

We study quantum modifications to cosmology in a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe with and without scalar fields by taking the renormalisation group running of gravitational and matter couplings into account. We exploit the Bianchi…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-14 Mark Hindmarsh , Daniel Litim , Christoph Rahmede

Working in the context of the Planck scale cosmology formulation of Bonanno and Reuter, we use our resummed quantum gravity approach to Einstein's general theory of relativity to estimate the value of the cosmological constant as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-05 B. F. L. Ward

I discuss the renormalisation group approach to gravity, its link to Steven Weinberg's asymptotic safety scenario, and give an overview of results with applications to particle physics and cosmology.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-19 Daniel F. Litim

We present the current status of the a new approach to quantum general relativity based on the exact resummation of its perturbative series as that series was formulated by Feynman. We show that the resummed theory is UV finite and we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 B. F. L. Ward

We present a new approach to quantum general relativity based on the idea of Feynman to treat the graviton in Einstein's theory as a point particle field subject to quantum fluctuations just as any such field is in the well-known Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-19 B. F. L. Ward

We present the elements of resummed quantum gravity, a new approach to quantum gravity based on the work of Feynman using the simplest example of a scalar field as the representative matter. We show that we get a UV finite quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 B. F. L. Ward

A hallmark of non-perturbative theories of quantum gravity is the absence of a fixed background geometry, and therefore the absence in a Planckian regime of any notion of length or scale that is defined a priori. This has potentially…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-06 J. Ambjorn , J. Gizbert-Studnicki , A. Goerlich , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

The quantization of Einstein-Maxwell theory with a cosmological constant is considered. We obtain all logarithmically divergent terms in the one-loop effective action that involve only the background electromagnetic field. This includes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 David J. Toms

We review the asymptotic safety scenario for quantum gravity and the role and implications of an underlying ultraviolet fixed point. We discuss renormalisation group techniques employed in the fixed point search, analyse the main picture at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-09 Daniel F. Litim

Homogeneous and isotropic cosmologies of the Planck era before the classical Einstein equations become valid are studied taking quantum gravitational effects into account. The cosmological evolution equations are renormalization group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 A. Bonanno , M. Reuter

In the asymptotic safety paradigm, a quantum field theory reaches a regime with quantum scale invariance in the ultraviolet, which is described by an interacting fixed point of the Renormalization Group. Compelling hints for the viability…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-01 Astrid Eichhorn
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