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The functional renormalization group (FRG) approach is a powerful tool for studies of a large variety of systems, ranging from statistical physics over the theory of the strong interaction to gravity. The practical application of this…

We consider the anisotropic gravity-gauge vector coupling in the non-projectable Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz theory at the kinetic conformal point, in the low energy regime. We show that the canonical formulation of the theory, evaluated at its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-03 Jarvin Mestra-Páez , Álvaro Restuccia , Francisco Tello-Ortiz

We construct gravity solutions describing renormalization group flows relating relativistic and non-relativistic conformal theories. We work both in a simple phenomenological theory with a massive vector field, and in an N=4, d=6 gauged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Harry Braviner , Ruth Gregory , Simon F. Ross

Functional renormalization group equations are analytically continued from imaginary Matsubara frequencies to the real frequency axis. On the example of a scalar field with O(N) symmetry we discuss the analytic structure of the flowing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-20 Stefan Floerchinger

In the first part of this short article, we define a renormalized F-functional for perturbations of non-compact steady Ricci solitons. This functional motivates a stability inequality which plays an important role in questions concerning…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-25 Robert Haslhofer

With respect to any special boundary defining function, a conformally compact asymptotically hyperbolic metric has an asymptotic expansion near its conformal infinity. If this expansion is even to a certain order and satisfies one extra…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Eric Bahuaud , Rafe Mazzeo , Eric Woolgar

Within the conformally reduced gravity model, where the metric is parametrised by a function $f(\phi)$ of the conformal factor $\phi$, we keep dependence on both the background and fluctuation fields, to local potential approximation and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-28 Juergen A. Dietz , Tim R. Morris

Several problems in physics, in particular the averaging problem in gravity, can be described in a formalism derived from the real-space Renormalization Group (RG) methods. It is shown that the RG flow is provided by the Ricci-Hamilton…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamilla Piotrkowska

Recent results based on renormalization group approaches to Quantum Gravity suggest that the Newton's and cosmological constants should be treated as dynamical variables whose evolution depend on the characteristic energy scale of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-08 S. J. Gabriele Gionti

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

We compute the renormalization group running of the Newton constant and the parameter $\lambda$ in $(3+1)$-dimensional projectable Horava gravity. We use the background field method expanding around configurations with flat spatial metric,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-31 Andrei O. Barvinsky , Mario Herrero-Valea , Sergey M. Sibiryakov

A novel exact dynamical real space renormalization group for a Langevin equation derivable from a Euclidean Gaussian action is presented. It is demonstrated rigorously that an algebraic temporal law holds for the Green function on arbitrary…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Achille Giacometti , Amos Maritan , Flavio Toigo , Jayanth R. Banavar

We construct exact functional renormalization group (RG) flow equations for non-relativistic fermions in arbitrary dimensions, taking into account not only mode elimination but also the rescaling of the momenta, frequencies and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter Kopietz , Tom Busche

The scaling properties of quantum gravity are discussed by employing a class of proper-time regulators in the functional flow equation for the conformal factor within the formalism of the background field method. Renormalization group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-10 Alfio Bonanno , Filippo Guarnieri

Considering the scale dependent effective spacetimes implied by the functional renormalization group in d-dimensional Quantum Einstein Gravity, we discuss the representation of entire evolution histories by means of a single, (d +…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Renata Ferrero , Martin Reuter

In the framework of the power-counting renormalizable theory of gravitation, recently proposed by Ho\v{r}ava, we study the limit $\lambda\to\infty$, which is arguably the most natural candidate for the ultraviolet fixed point of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-27 A. Emir Gumrukcuoglu , Shinji Mukohyama

First-order `Bogomol'nyi' equations are found for dilaton domain walls of D-dimensional gravity with the general dilaton potential admitting a stable anti-de Sitter vacuum. Implications for renormalization group flow in the holographically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Kostas Skenderis , Paul K. Townsend

After a brief review of the definition and properties of the quantum effective Hamiltonian action we describe its renormalization flow by a functional RG equation. This equation can be used for a non-perturbative quantization and study also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 G. P. Vacca , L. Zambelli

We show that the Horava theory for the completion of General Relativity at UV scales can be interpreted as a gauge fixed theory, and it can be extended to an invariant theory under the full group of four-dimensional diffeomorphisms. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Cristiano Germani , Alex Kehagias , Konstadinos Sfetsos

Motivated by the conjecture that the cosmological constant problem could be solved by strong quantum effects in the infrared we use the exact flow equation of Quantum Einstein Gravity to determine the renormalization group behavior of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Reuter , F. Saueressig