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The exact renormalization group equation for pure quantum gravity is used to derive the non-perturbative $\Fbeta$-functions for the dimensionless Newton constant and cosmological constant on the theory space spanned by the Einstein-Hilbert…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 M. Reuter , F. Saueressig

We show that the Wilsonian renormalization group (RG) provides a natural regularisation of the Quantum Master Equation such that to first order the BRST algebra closes on local functionals spanned by the eigenoperators with constant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-31 Tim R. Morris

We compare the recently formulated multifractional spacetimes with field theories of quantum gravity based on the renormalization group (RG), such as asymptotic safety and Ho\v{r}ava--Lifshitz gravity. The change of spacetime dimensionality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-31 Gianluca Calcagni

We apply the functional renormalization group equation to a massive Fierz-Pauli action in curved space and find that, even though a massive term is a modification in the infrared sector, the mass term modifies the value of the non-gaussian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Maximiliano Binder , Iván Schmidt

We establish an exact equivalence between the Functional Renormalization Group (FRG) and the Ricci flow modified by a potential-driven diffeomorphism. By reformulating the Polchinski exact renormalization group equation into an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Ki-Seok Kim

We summarize our renormalization group approach for the vector model as well as the matrix model which are the discretized quantum gravity in one- and two-dimensional spacetime. A difference equation is obtained which relates free energies…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Higuchi , C. Itoi , S. Nishigaki , N. Sakai

In nonperturbative formulation of quantum field theory (QFT), the vacuum state is characterized by the Wilsonian renormalization group (RG) flow of Feynman type field correlators. Such a flow is a parametric family of ultraviolet (UV)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-24 Andras Laszlo , Zsigmond Tarcsay

We study the renormalization group flow of non-local form factors in four-dimensional quantum gravity within the proper-time formalism at quadratic order in the curvature expansion. We show that the flow equations can be integrated down to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Emiliano Maria Glaviano

Motivated by recent evidence indicating that Quantum Einstein Gravity (QEG) might be nonperturbatively renormalizable, the exact renormalization group equation of QEG is evaluated in a truncation of theory space which generalizes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 O. Lauscher , M. Reuter

We propose a general approach for the construction of modified gravity which is invariant under foliation-preserving diffeomorphisms. Special attention is paid to the formulation of modified $F(R)$ Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity (FRHL), whose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-06 Masud Chaichian , Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov , Markku Oksanen , Anca Tureanu

We report on a recently introduced Functional Renormalization Group (RG) Equation, and we apply it to quantum gravity in Lorentzian spacetimes. While the RG flow is state-dependent, it is possible to evaluate state and background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-17 Edoardo D'Angelo

The renormalization group (RG) properties of quantum gravity are explored, using the vielbein and the spin connection as the fundamental field variables. The scale dependent effective action is required to be invariant both under space time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 J. -E. Daum , M. Reuter

In a companion paper arXiv:2510.27676, we introduced a non-perturbative classical renormalisation group (RG) flow equation as a novel method for treating strongly interacting problems in general relativity, with a prominent application to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-22 F. Gutiérrez , K. Falls , A. Codello

The exact renormalization group equation for pure quantum gravity is derived for an arbitrary gauge parameter in the space-time dimension $d=4$. This equation is given by a non-linear functional differential equation for the effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Wataru Souma

Real-Space renormalization group techniques are developed for tackling large curvature fluctuations in quantum gravity. Within cells of invariant volume $a^4$, only certain types of fluctuations are allowed. Normal coordinates are used to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-21 H. S. Sharatchandra

We compute the $\beta$-functions of marginal couplings in projectable Ho\v{r}ava gravity in $2+1$ spacetime dimensions. We show that the renormalization group flow has an asymptotically-free fixed point in the ultraviolet (UV), establishing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-27 Andrei O. Barvinsky , Diego Blas , Mario Herrero-Valea , Sergey M. Sibiryakov , Christian F. Steinwachs

Searching for new non-perturbatively renormalizable quantum gravity theories, functional renormalization group (RG) flows are studied on a theory space of action functionals depending on the metric and the torsion tensor, the latter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Martin Reuter , Gregor M. Schollmeyer

We report a comprehensive numerical study of the renormalization group flow of marginal couplings in $(3+1)$-dimensional projectable Ho\v{r}ava gravity. First, we classify all fixed points of the flow and analyze their stability matrices.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-22 Andrei O. Barvinsky , Alexander V. Kurov , Sergey M. Sibiryakov

In this contribution, we discuss the asymptotic safety scenario for quantum gravity by evaluating the correlation functions of dynamical metric fluctuations. This is done with a functional renormalisation group approach that disentangles…

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

Models of gravity with variable G and Lambda have acquired greater relevance after the recent evidence in favour of the Einstein theory being nonperturbatively renormalizable in the Weinberg sense. The present paper applies the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Alfio Bonanno , Giampiero Esposito , Claudio Rubano