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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

The methods of the renormalization group and the $\varepsilon$-expansion are applied to quantum gravity revealing the existence of an asymptotically safe fixed point in spacetime dimensions higher than two. To facilitate this, physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-04 Kevin Falls

Asymptotic safety describes a scenario in which general relativity can be quantized as a conventional field theory, despite being nonrenormalizable when expanding it around a fixed background geometry. It is formulated in the framework of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-02-06 J. Ambjorn , A. Goerlich , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Nicolai Christiansen , Benjamin Knorr , Jan M. Pawlowski , Andreas Rodigast

The asymptotic safety scenario in quantum gravity is reviewed, according to which a renormalizable quantum theory of the gravitational field is feasible which reconciles asymptotically safe couplings with unitarity. All presently known…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-02 M. Niedermaier

A new exact renormalization group equation for the effective average action of Euclidean quantum gravity is constructed. It is formulated in terms of the component fields appearing in the transverse-traceless decomposition of the metric. It…

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

We study the non-perturbative renormalization group flow of higher-derivative gravity employing functional renormalization group techniques. The non-perturbative contributions to the $\beta$-functions shift the known perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-08 Dario Benedetti , Pedro F. Machado , Frank Saueressig

Asymptotic safety generalizes asymptotic freedom and could contribute to understanding physics beyond the Standard Model. It is a candidate scenario to provide an ultraviolet extension for the effective quantum field theory of gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-22 Astrid Eichhorn

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

Asymptotic safety is a theoretical proposal for the ultraviolet completion of quantum field theories, in particular for quantum gravity. Significant progress on this program has led to a first characterization of the Reuter fixed point.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-16 Alfio Bonanno , Astrid Eichhorn , Holger Gies , Jan M. Pawlowski , Roberto Percacci , Martin Reuter , Frank Saueressig , Gian Paolo Vacca

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 study the non-perturbative renormalization group flow of f(R)-gravity in three-dimensional Asymptotically Safe Quantum Einstein Gravity. Within the conformally reduced approximation, we derive an exact partial differential equation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-02-07 Maximilian Demmel , Frank Saueressig , Omar Zanusso

Asymptotic Safety offers a conservative and predictive framework for quantum gravity, based on the existence of a renormalization group fixed point that ensures ultraviolet completeness without introducing new degrees of freedom. Black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 Andrea Spina

I review the field-theoretic renomalization group approach to quantum gravity, built around the existence of a non-trivial ultraviolet fixed point in four dimensions. I discuss the implications of such a fixed point, found in three largely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-04 Herbert W. Hamber

Unimodular gravity is classically equivalent to General Relativity. This equivalence extends to actions which are functions of the curvature scalar. At the quantum level, the dynamics could differ. Most importantly, the cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Astrid Eichhorn

The availability of scaling solutions in renormalisation group improved versions of cosmology are investigated in the high-energy limit. We adopt $f(R)$-type models of quantum gravity which display an interacting ultraviolet fixed point at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-16 Kevin Falls , Daniel F. Litim , Kostas Nikolakopoulos , Christoph Rahmede

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

We use functional renormalization group methods to study gravity minimally coupled to a free scalar field. This setup provides the prototype of a gravitational theory which is perturbatively non-renormalizable at one-loop level, but may…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-06 Dario Benedetti , Pedro F. Machado , Frank Saueressig

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 investigate the ultraviolet behaviour of quantum gravity within a functional renormalisation group approach. The present setup includes the full ghost and graviton propagators and, for the first time, the dynamical graviton three-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-23 Nicolai Christiansen , Benjamin Knorr , Jan Meibohm , Jan M. Pawlowski , Manuel Reichert