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The renormalization group flow of unimodular quantum gravity is computed by taking into account the graviton and Faddeev-Popov ghosts anomalous dimensions. In this setting, a ultraviolet attractive fixed point is found. Symmetry-breaking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-14 Gustavo P. de Brito , Antonio D. Pereira

Unimodular gravity is classically equivalent to General Relativity. This equivalence extends to actions which are functions of the curvature scalar. At the quantum level, the dynamics could differ. Most importantly, the cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Astrid Eichhorn

We use functional renormalization group methods to study gravity minimally coupled to a free scalar field. This setup provides the prototype of a gravitational theory which is perturbatively non-renormalizable at one-loop level, but may…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-06 Dario Benedetti , Pedro F. Machado , Frank Saueressig

We study renormalization group equations of quantum gravity in four dimensions. We find an ultraviolet fixed point in accordance with the asymptotic safety conjecture, and infrared fixed points corresponding to general relativity with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-22 Daniel Litim , Alejandro Satz

A real space renormalization group technique, based on the hierarchical baby-universe structure of a typical dynamically triangulated manifold, is used to study scaling properties of 2d and 4d lattice quantum gravity. In 4d, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Z. Burda , J. -P. Kownacki , A. Krzywicki

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

We analyse the renormalisation group flow of quantum gravity at sixth order in the derivative expansion within the background field approximation. Non-linear field redefinitions are used to ensure that only essential couplings flow. Working…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-08 Alessio Baldazzi , Kevin Falls , Yannick Kluth , Benjamin Knorr

We explore whether quantum gravity effects within the asymptotic safety paradigm can provide a predictive ultraviolet completion for Abelian gauge theories. We evaluate the effect of quantum gravity fluctuations on the running couplings in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-18 Nicolai Christiansen , Astrid Eichhorn

Corrections are computed to the classical static isotropic solution of general relativity, arising from non-perturbative quantum gravity effects. A slow rise of the effective gravitational coupling with distance is shown to involve a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Herbert W. Hamber , Ruth M. Williams

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

In the asymptotic safety paradigm, a quantum field theory reaches a regime with quantum scale invariance in the ultraviolet, which is described by an interacting fixed point of the Renormalization Group. Compelling hints for the viability…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-01 Astrid Eichhorn

We explore the effect of quantum gravity on matter within a Renormalization Group framework. First, our results provide an explicit example of how misleading conclusions can be drawn by analyzing the gravitational contributions to beta…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Gustavo P. de Brito , Astrid Eichhorn

We investigate the gauge symmetry and gauge fixing dependence properties of the effective average action for quantum gravity models of general form. Using the background field formalism and the standard BRST-based arguments, one can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-11 Vítor F. Barra , Peter M. Lavrov , Eduardo Antonio dos Reis , Tibério de Paula Netto , Ilya L. Shapiro

We investigate the renormalisation of Einstein gravity using a novel subtraction scheme in dimensional regularisation. The one-loop beta function for Newton's constant receives contributions from poles in even dimensions and can be mapped…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 Kevin Falls , Renata Ferrero

We study fixed points of quantum gravity with renormalisation group methods, and a procedure to remove convergence-limiting poles from the flow. The setup is tested within the $f(R)$ approximation for gravity by solving exact recursive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-03 Kevin G. Falls , Daniel F. Litim , Jan Schröder

We study the quantum properties of the three-dimensional higher derivative gravity. In particular we calculate the running of the gravitational and cosmological constants. The flow of these couplings shows that there exist both Gaussian and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Nobuyoshi Ohta

We study quantum gravity in more than four dimensions by means of an exact functional flow. A non-trivial ultraviolet fixed point is found in the Einstein-Hilbert theory. It is shown that our results for the fixed point and universal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Peter Fischer , Daniel F. Litim

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

The quantization of Einstein-Maxwell theory with a cosmological constant is considered. We obtain all logarithmically divergent terms in the one-loop effective action that involve only the background electromagnetic field. This includes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 David J. Toms

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