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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

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

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

Ghost-free bimetric theory can describe gravity in the presence of an extra spin-2 field. We study certain aspects of dynamics in this theory: (1) It is shown that if either of the metrics is an Einstein solution then the other is always…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 S. F. Hassan , Angnis Schmidt-May , Mikael von Strauss

In the asymptotic-safety scenario for gravity, nonzero interactions are present in the ultraviolet. This property should also percolate into the matter sector. Symmetry- based arguments suggest that nonminimal derivative interactions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-29 Astrid Eichhorn , Stefan Lippoldt , Vedran Skrinjar

Phenomenologically appealing supersymmetric grand unified theories have large gauge representations and thus are not asymptotically free. Their ultraviolet validity is limited by the appearance of a Landau pole well before the Planck scale.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Borut Bajc , Francesco Sannino

Asymptotic Safety (AS) Paradigm is an interesting set of ideas and methods towards a meaningful quantization of Gravity. A brief review of phenomenological consequences in the context of AS regarding cosmology with emphasis on dark energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-11 Vasilios Zarikas

We consider the asymptotic-safety scenario for quantum gravity which constructs a non-perturbatively renormalisable quantum gravity theory with the help of the functional renormalisation group. We verify the existence of a non-Gaussian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Astrid Eichhorn , Holger Gies , Michael M. Scherer

Asymptotic Safety, based on a non-Gaussian fixed point of the gravitational renormalization group flow, provides an elegant mechanism for completing the gravitational force at sub-Planckian scales. At high energies the fixed point controls…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 Alfio Bonanno , Frank Saueressig

This is an introduction to asymptotically safe quantum gravity, explaining the main idea of asymptotic safety and how it could solve the problem of predictivity in quantum gravity. In the first part, the concept of an asymptotically safe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-03 Astrid Eichhorn

We propose a model describing Einstein gravity coupled to a scalar field with an exponential potential. We show that the weak-field limit of the model has static solutions given by a gravitational potential behaving for large distances as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Mariano Cadoni

We study quantum aspects of the Einstein gravity with one time-like and one space-like Killing vector commuting with each other. The theory is formulated as a $\coset$ nonlinear $\sigma$-model coupled to gravity. The quantum analysis of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Y. Satoh

We investigate the short distance fate of distinct classes of not asymptotically free supersymmetric gauge theories. Examples include super QCD with two adjoint fields and generalised superpotentials, gauge theories without superpotentials…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Borut Bajc , Nicola Andrea Dondi , Francesco Sannino

Asymptotic safety is a candidate for a predictive quantum theory of gravity and matter. Recent works (arXiv:2412.10194 and arXiv:2412.14108) challenged this scenario. We show that their arguments fail on a basic level.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-17 Aaron Held , Benjamin Knorr , Jan M. Pawlowski , Alessia Platania , Manuel Reichert , Frank Saueressig , Marc Schiffer

The asymptotic safety scenario of gravity conjectures that (i) the quantum field theory of gravity exists thanks to the presence of a non-trivial ultraviolet fixed point of the renormalization group, and that (ii) the fixed point has only a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-16 Dario Benedetti

A nonlinear scalar field theory from which an effective metric can be deduced is considered. This metric is shown to be compatible with requirements of general relativity. It is demonstrated that there is a class of solutions which fulfill…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrzej Okninski

We give a pedagogical introduction to the basic ideas and concepts of the Asymptotic Safety program in Quantum Einstein Gravity. Using the continuum approach based upon the effective average action, we summarize the state of the art of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Martin Reuter , Frank Saueressig

The phase diagram of four-dimensional Einstein-Hilbert gravity is studied using Wilson's renormalization group. Smooth trajectories connecting the ultraviolet fixed point at short distances with attractive infrared fixed points at long…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-19 Nicolai Christiansen , Daniel F. Litim , Jan M. Pawlowski , Andreas Rodigast

We present a comprehensive non-perturbative study of the phase structure of the asymptotically safe Standard Model. The physics scales included range from the asymptotically safe trans-Planckian regime in the ultraviolet, the intermediate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-20 Álvaro Pastor-Gutiérrez , Jan M. Pawlowski , Manuel Reichert

Einstein action of gravity is obtained from a gauge theory, if our spacetime was once in two folds with a double Lorentz symmetry. After the dual symmetry breaks spontaneously, Lorentz symmetry absorbs gauge symmetry, while the gauge field…

General Physics · Physics 2022-12-27 Kimihide Nishimura