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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

Recent studies of the ultraviolet behaviour of pure gravity suggest that it admits a non-Gaussian attractive fixed point, and therefore that the theory is asymptotically safe. We consider the effect on this fixed point of massless minimally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Roberto Percacci , Daniele Perini

General relativity predicts its own demise at singularities, but also appears to conveniently shield itself from the catastrophic consequences of such singularities, making them safe. For instance, if strong cosmic censorship were…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-12 Julio Arrechea , Carlos Barceló , Valentin Boyanov , Luis J. Garay

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

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

New general spherically symmetric solutions have been derived with a cosmological "constant" \Lambda as a source. This \Lambda field is not constant but it satisfies the properties of the asymptotically safe gravity at the ultraviolet fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-26 Georgios Kofinas , Vasilios Zarikas

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

Regular black hole spacetimes are obtained from an effective Lagrangian for Quantum Einstein Gravity. The interior matter is modeled as a dust fluid, which interacts with the geometry through a multiplicative coupling function denoted as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-06 Alfio Bonanno , Daniele Malafarina , Antonio Panassiti

The existence of spacetime singularities is one of the biggest problems of nowadays physics. According to Penrose, each physical singularity should be covered by a "cosmic censor" which prevents any external observer from perceiving their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-15 Alfio Bonanno , Benjamin Koch , Alessia Platania

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

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

Building a consistent Quantum Theory of Gravity is one of the most challenging aspects of modern theoretical physics. In the past couple of years, new attempts have been made along the path of ``asymptotic safety'' through the use of Exact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniele Perini

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

We compute the asymptotic safety landscape stemming from ultraviolet-complete photon-graviton flows in a field theoretic setup, and we confront it with the weak gravity conjecture and, for the first time, with positivity bounds. At fourth…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-13 Benjamin Knorr , Alessia Platania

We consider general relativistic homogeneous gravitational collapses for dust and radiation. We show that replacing the density profile with an effective density justified by some quantum gravity framework leads to the avoidance of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-07 Cosimo Bambi , Daniele Malafarina , Leonardo Modesto

The asymptotic safety program assumes that quantum gravity becomes renormalizable through ultraviolet fixed points in metric-based couplings. We demonstrate that this approach {encounters fundamental symmetry violations} across multiple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-15 Farrukh A. Chishtie

Generalized Proca Theories are the most general higher-derivative extensions of a massive vector field that retain second-order equations of motion. They are phenomenologically interesting as models of dynamical dark energy that, unlike…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-30 Lavinia Heisenberg , Alessia Platania , Sara Rufrano Aliberti

A search strategy for asymptotic safety is put forward and tested for a simplified version of gravity in four dimensions using the renormalization group. Taking the action to be a high-order polynomial of the Ricci scalar, a self-consistent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-08 K. Falls , D. F. Litim , K. Nikolakopoulos , C. Rahmede

Asymptotic safety is a set of conditions, based on the existence of a nontrivial fixed point for the renormalization group flow, which would make a quantum field theory consistent up to arbitrarily high energies. After introducing the basic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-18 R. Percacci

We study the ultraviolet stability of gravity-matter systems for general numbers of minimally coupled scalars and fermions. This is done within the functional renormalisation group setup put forward in \cite{Christiansen:2015rva} for pure…

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