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We study within Palatini formalism an f(R)-gravity with f(R)= R + \alpha R^2 interacting with a dilaton and a special kind of nonlinear gauge field system containing a square-root of the standard Maxwell term, which is known to produce…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Eduardo Guendelman , Alexander Kaganovich , Emil Nissimov , Svetlana Pacheva

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

We investigate the exact renormalization group (RG) in Einstein gravity coupled to N-component spinor field, working in the effective average action formalism and background field method. The truncated evolution equation is obtained for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 L. N. Granda

Theories of scalars and gravity, with an Einstein-Hilbert term and non-minimal interactions, $M^2R/2 -\alpha\phi^2R/12 $, have graviton exchange induced contact interactions. These modify the renormalization group, leading to a discrepancy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-03 Dumitru Ghilencea , Christopher T. Hill

We analyze the stability of the Einstein static universe by considering homogeneous scalar perturbations in the context of f(R) modified theories of gravity. By considering specific forms of f(R), the stability regions of the solutions are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-22 Christian G. Boehmer , Lukas Hollenstein , Francisco S. N. Lobo

The renormalization group (RG) is used to study the asymptotically free $\phi_6^3$-theory in curved spacetime. Several forms of the RG equations for the effective potential are formulated. By solving these equations we obtain the one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 E. Elizalde , R. Kantowski , S. D. Odintsov

Renormalization Group (RG) techniques have been successfully employed in quantum field theory and statistical physics. Here we apply RG methods to study the non-linear stages of structure formation in the Universe. Exact equations for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Sabino Matarrese , Massimo Pietroni

The normalization of the quantum corrected action is resolving the equation divergent dependence of the cutoff towards the system apparent result in quantum gravity. Here we consider the normalization to Einstein R twice scalar action with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-25 Daiki Yamaguchi

We revisit the holographic renormalization group (RG) setting in which a 4-dimensional ($4d$) quantum field theory at a finite cutoff corresponds to/is described by the Einstein gravity on a part of AdS$_{5}$ space, cutoff at a finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 H. Adami , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , V. Taghiloo

We extend the formalism of the Einstein-Hilbert unimodular gravity in the context of modified $F(R)$ gravity. After appropriately modifying the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric in a way that it becomes compatible to the unimodular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-01 S. Nojiri , S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou

We present a general framework for understanding and analyzing critical behaviour in gravitational collapse. We adopt the method of renormalization group, which has the following advantages. (1) It provides a natural explanation for various…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Takashi Hara , Tatsuhiko Koike , Satoshi Adachi

Dense relativistic matter has attracted a lot of attention over many decades now, with a focus on an understanding of the phase structure and thermodynamics of dense strong-interaction matter. The analysis of dense strong-interaction matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Jens Braun , Timon Dörnfeld , Benedikt Schallmo , Sebastian Töpfel

In the framework of the functional renormalization group method it is shown that the phase structure of the 2-dimensional sine-Gordon model possesses a nontrivial UV fixed point which makes the model asymptotically safe. The fixed point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 J. Kovacs , S. Nagy , K. Sailer

We give a review of UV renormalization of Ho\v{r}ava gravity (HG) models introduced as a remedy against violation of unitarity in quantum gravity theory. Projectable and non-projectable low-dimensional HG models and the spectra of their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-07 Andrei O. Barvinsky

We consider the evolution of a flat Friedmann-Roberstson-Walker Universe in a higher derivative theories, including $\alpha R^{2}$ terms to the Einstein-Hilbert action in the presence of a variable gravitational and cosmological constants.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 P. S. Debnath , B. C. Paul

We study the $f(R)$ theory of gravity using metric approach. In particular we investigate the recently proposed model by Hu-Sawicki, Appleby $-$ Battye and Starobinsky. In this model, the cosmological constant is zero in flat space time.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-23 Abha Dev , D. Jain , S. Jhingan , S. Nojiri , M. Sami , I. Thongkool

The renormalization group plays an essential role in many areas of physics, both conceptually and as a practical tool to determine the long-distance low-energy properties of many systems on the one hand and on the other hand search for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-10 N. Dupuis , L. Canet , A. Eichhorn , W. Metzner , J. M. Pawlowski , M. Tissier , N. Wschebor

We briefly review the previous works on the renormalization group in quantum general relativity with the cosmological constant, based on the Vilkovisky and DeWitt version of effective action. On top of that, we discuss the prospects of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-13 Breno L. Giacchini , Tibério de Paula Netto , Ilya L. Shapiro

We re-examine the classic problem of the renormalization of zero-point quantum fluctuations in a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background. We discuss a number of issues that arise when regularizing the theory with a momentum-space cutoff, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Lukas Hollenstein , Maud Jaccard , Michele Maggiore , Ermis Mitsou

We show that in the $f(Q)$ gravity with a non-metricity scalar $Q$, the curvatures in Einstein's gravity, that is, the Riemann curvature constructed from the standard Levi-Civita connection, could not be excluded or naturally appear. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-16 Shin'ichi Nojiri , S. D. Odintsov