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The asymptotic-safety paradigm posits that the symmetry of quantum theories of gravity and matter is enhanced to quantum scale symmetry, i.e., scale symmetry in the presence of quantum fluctuations, at very high energies. To achieve such a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-16 Astrid Eichhorn , Marc Schiffer

Both General Relativity and the Standard Model of particle physics are not UV complete. General Relativity is perturbatively non-renormalizable, while the Standard Model features Landau poles, where couplings are predicted to diverge at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-06 Maksym Riabokon , Marc Schiffer , Fabian Wagner

We investigate the asymptotic safety conjecture for quantum gravity including curvature invariants beyond Ricci scalars. Our strategy is put to work for families of gravitational actions which depend on functions of the Ricci scalar, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-18 Kevin G. Falls , Callum R. King , Daniel F. Litim , Kostas Nikolakopoulos , Christoph Rahmede

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

Asymptotically Safe theories of gravity have recently received much attention. In this work we discuss a class of inflationary models derived from quantum-gravity modification of quadratic gravity according to the induced scaling around the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-14 Alfio Bonanno , Alessia Platania

The asymptotic safety program strives for a consistent description of gravity as a non-perturbatively renormalizable quantum field theory. In this framework the gravitational interactions are encoded in a renormalization group flow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-08 Frank Saueressig , Giulia Gubitosi , Chris Ripken

Asymptotic safety is a powerful mechanism for obtaining a consistent and predictive quantum field theory beyond the realm of perturbation theory. It hinges on an interacting fixed point of the Wilsonian renormalization group flow which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-02 Frank Saueressig , Agustín Silva

We compute leading order quantum gravity contributions to a simple scalar scattering amplitude in Asymptotic Safety. Our model admits an analytic treatment so that several subtleties can be analysed. We find that (i) the existence of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-18 Benjamin Knorr

We show that, by using 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 predictions for the UV fixed-point values of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-11 B. F. L. Ward

Asymptotic Safety constitutes a promising mechanism for a consistent and predictive high-energy completion of the gravitational interactions. To date, most results on the interacting renormalization group fixed point underlying the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-19 Frank Saueressig , Jian Wang

The asymptotic safety scenario in gravity is accessed within the systematic vertex expansion scheme for functional renormalisation group flows put forward in \cite{Christiansen:2012rx,Christiansen:2014raa}, and implemented in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-30 Tobias Denz , Jan M. Pawlowski , Manuel Reichert

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

In this contribution, we discuss the asymptotic safety scenario for quantum gravity with a functional renormalisation group approach that disentangles dynamical metric fluctuations from the background metric. We review the state of the art…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-03 Jan M. Pawlowski , Manuel Reichert

Ultraviolet fixed point functions of the functional renormalisation group equation for $f(R)$-gravity coupled to matter fields are discussed. The metric is split via the exponential parameterisation into a background and a fluctuating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-09 Natalia Alkofer

Asymptotically safe quantum gravity is a candidate theory to quantum gravity, which could unify the gravitational interaction with particle physics. It is characterized by quantum scale-symmetry at high energies. The constraining power of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-01 Marc Schiffer

We study the field theoretical description of a generic theory of gravity flowing to Einstein General Relativity in IR. We prove that, if ghost-free, in the weakly coupled regime such a theory can never become weaker than General…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-04 Gia Dvali , Sarah Folkerts , Cristiano Germani

We study the gravitational correction to the gauge couplings in the extra dimension model where the gravity propagates in the (4+n)-dimensional bulk. We show by explicit calculation in the background field method that the one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-09-12 Feng Wu , Ming Zhong

Asymptotically safe quantum gravity is a promising candidate scenario to provide a UV extension for the effective quantum field theory of Einstein's gravity. The theory has its foundations on the very successful framework of quantum field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 Biao Zhou , Askar B. Abdikamalov , Dimitry Ayzenberg , Cosimo Bambi , Sourabh Nampalliwar , Ashutosh Tripathi

We set up a vacuum theory of gravity with an extra dimension of vanishing proper length. The most general solution to the field equations are presented. This formulation is free of Kaluza-Klein modes and does not allow the propagation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-26 Sandipan Sengupta

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