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A new set of field equations for a space-time dependent Newton's constant $G(x)$ and cosmological constant $\Lambda(x)$ in the presence of matter is presented. We prove that it represents the most general mathematically consistent,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-19 Alfio Bonanno , Georgios Kofinas , Vasilios Zarikas

We reconstruct $F(\mathcal{G})$ gravity theory with an exponential scale factor to realize the bouncing behavior in the early universe and examine the asymptotic behaviour of late-time solutions in this model. We propose an approach to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-15 Andrey N. Makarenko , Alexander N. Myagky

A new representation is found for the action of the recently suggested ghost-free nonlocal gravity models generating de Sitter or Anti-de Sitter background with an arbitrary value of the effective cosmological constant. This representation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 A. O. Barvinsky , Yu. V. Gusev

We consider general curvature-invariant modifications of the Einstein-Hilbert action that become important only in regions of extremely low space-time curvature. We investigate the far future evolution of the universe in such models,…

We explore the phenomenology of scalar fields coupled to asymptotically safe quantum gravity, in light of their potential significance for dark matter, for the inflaton as well as dynamical dark energy, and in the Higgs sector in and beyond…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Astrid Eichhorn , Martin Pauly

Homogeneous isotropic cosmological models with two torsion functions filled with scalar fields and usual gravitating matter are built and investigated in the framework of the Poincar\'e gauge theory of gravity. It is shown that by certain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. V. Minkevich , A. S. Garkun , V. I. Kudin

Recently, evidence has been collected that a class of gravitational theories with certain non-local operators is renormalizable. We consider one such model which, at the linear perturbative level, reproduces the effective non-local action…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-26 Gianluca Calcagni , Leonardo Modesto , Piero Nicolini

This is a first study of the cosmology of classical fractional gravity, a nonlocal proposal endowed with self-adjoint fractional d'Alembertian operators which serves as the basis for an ultraviolet-complete theory of quantum gravity. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-01 Iván Salvador-García , Gianluca Calcagni

It is well known in quantum field theory that the off-shell effective action depends on the gauge choice and field parametrization used in calculating it. Nevertheless, the typical scheme in which the scenario of asymptotically safe gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-15 Dario Benedetti

The accelerated expansion of the universe poses a significant challenge to General Relativity. Non-local modifications to gravity have emerged as a compelling class of theories to address this dark energy puzzle. Building upon earlier…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Susobhan Mandal , S. Shankaranarayanan

We use the functional renormalization group equation for the effective average action to study the non-Gaussian renormalization group fixed points (NGFPs) arising within the framework of f(R)-gravity minimally coupled to an arbitrary number…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Natalia Alkofer , Frank Saueressig

Within the framework of four-dimensional quadratic curvature gravities in the appearance of a negative cosmological constant, a definition for the gravitational energy of solutions with anti-de Sitter (AdS) asymptotics was put forward in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-23 Meng-Liang Wang , Jun-Jin Peng

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

We compute non-perturbative flow equations for the couplings of quantum gravity in fourth order of a derivative expansion. The gauge invariant functional flow equation for arbitrary metrics allows us to extract $\beta$-functions for all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-24 Saswato Sen , Christof Wetterich , Masatoshi Yamada

We study the conformally reduced $R+R^2$ theory of gravity and we show that the theory is asymptotically safe with an ultraviolet critical manifold of dimension three. In particular, we discuss the universality properties of the fixed point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Alfio Maurizio Bonanno , Maria Conti , Sergio Luigi Cacciatori

A variety of gravitational dynamics problems in asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime are amenable to efficient numerical solution using a common approach involving a null slicing of spacetime based on infalling geodesics,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-24 Paul M. Chesler , Laurence G. Yaffe

We present a class of generally covariant nonlocal gravity models which have a flat-space general relativistic (GR) limit and also possess a stable de Sitter (dS) or Anti-de Sitter (AdS) background with an arbitrary value of its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Andrei O. Barvinsky

The asymptotic safety conjecture is examined for quantum gravity in four dimensions. Using the renormalisation group, we find evidence for an interacting UV fixed point for polynomial actions up to the 34th power in the Ricci scalar. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 Kevin Falls , Daniel F. Litim , Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos , Christoph Rahmede

We consider cosmological dynamics of nonminimally coupled scalar field in the scalar-torsion gravity in the presence of a hydrodynamical matter. Potential of the scalar field have been chosen as power-law with negative index, this type of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-03 Maria Skugoreva , Alexey Toporensky

We discuss the existence of inflationary solutions in a class of renormalization group improved polynomial f(R) theories, which have been studied recently in the context of the asymptotic safety scenario for quantum gravity. These theories…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-24 Alfio Bonanno , Adriano Contillo , Roberto Percacci