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We discover a weak-gravity bound in scalar-gravity systems in the asymptotic-safety paradigm. The weak-gravity bound arises in these systems under the approximations we make, when gravitational fluctuations exceed a critical strength.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-12 Gustavo P. de Brito , Astrid Eichhorn , Rafael Robson Lino dos Santos

We review the asymptotic safety scenario for quantum gravity and the role and implications of an underlying ultraviolet fixed point. We discuss renormalisation group techniques employed in the fixed point search, analyse the main picture at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-09 Daniel F. Litim

This paper explores cosmological scenarios in a scalar-tensor theory of gravity, including both a non-minimal coupling with scalar curvature of the form $R\phi^2$ and a non-minimal derivative coupling of the form…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-13 Ravil R. Fatykhov , Sergey V. Sushkov

All known examples of four dimensional quantum field theories with asymptotic freedom or asymptotic safety at weak coupling involve non-abelian gauge interactions. We demonstrate that this is not a coincidence: no weakly coupled fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-05 Andrew D. Bond , Daniel F. Litim

There seems to be a common prejudice that asymptotic safety is either incompatible with, or at best unrelated to, the other topics in the title. This is not the case. In fact, we show that 1) the existence of a fixed point with suitable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-13 R. Percacci , G. P. Vacca

Within the functional renormalization group approach we study the effective QFT of Einstein gravity and one self-interacting scalar coupled to N_f Dirac fermions. We include in our analysis the matter anomalous dimensions induced by all the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-28 G. P. Vacca , O. Zanusso

We present and discuss well known conditions for ultraviolet finiteness and asymptotic safety. The requirements for complete absence of ultraviolet divergences in quantum field theories and existence of a non-trivial fixed point for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-22 Leslaw Rachwal

We discuss the conceptual ideas underlying the Asymptotic Safety approach to the nonperturbative renormalization of gravity. By now numerous functional renormalization group studies predict the existence of a suitable nontrivial ultraviolet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-23 Andreas Nink , Martin Reuter

We comment on Weinberg's interesting analysis of asymptotically safe inflation (arXiv:0911.3165). We find that even if the gravity theory exhibits an ultraviolet fixed point, the energy scale during inflation is way too low to drive the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-06 S. -H. Henry Tye , Jiajun Xu

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

Asymptotic safety is a theoretical proposal for the ultraviolet completion of quantum field theories, in particular for quantum gravity. Significant progress on this program has led to a first characterization of the Reuter fixed point.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-16 Alfio Bonanno , Astrid Eichhorn , Holger Gies , Jan M. Pawlowski , Roberto Percacci , Martin Reuter , Frank Saueressig , Gian Paolo Vacca

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

Asymptotic Safety, based on a non-Gaussian fixed point of the gravitational renormalization group flow, provides an elegant mechanism for completing the gravitational force at sub-Planckian scales. At high energies the fixed point controls…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 Alfio Bonanno , Frank Saueressig

We analyse the asymptotic symmetries of electromagnetism non-minimally coupled to scalar fields, with non-minimal couplings of the Fermi type that occur in extended supergravity models. Our study is carried out at spatial infinity where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-02 Oscar Fuentealba , Marc Henneaux , Jules Mas

We explore the Renormalization Group flow of massive uncharged fermions -- a candidate for dark matter -- coupled to a scalar field through a Higgs portal. We find that fermionic fluctuations can lower the bound on the scalar mass that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Astrid Eichhorn , Aaron Held , Peter Vander Griend

We compute the asymptotic safety landscape stemming from ultraviolet-complete photon-graviton flows in a field theoretic setup, and we confront it with the weak gravity conjecture and, for the first time, with positivity bounds. At fourth…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-13 Benjamin Knorr , Alessia Platania

We investigate the asymptotic safety conjecture for quantum gravity including curvature invariants beyond Ricci scalars. Our strategy is put to work for families of gravitational actions which depend on functions of the Ricci scalar, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-18 Kevin G. Falls , Callum R. King , Daniel F. Litim , Kostas Nikolakopoulos , Christoph Rahmede

We present a comprehensive non-perturbative study of the phase structure of the asymptotically safe Standard Model. The physics scales included range from the asymptotically safe trans-Planckian regime in the ultraviolet, the intermediate…

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

We demonstrate that interacting ultraviolet fixed points in four dimensions exist at strong coupling, and away from large-$N$ Veneziano limits. This is established exemplarily for semi-simple supersymmetric gauge theories with chiral matter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-25 Andrew D. Bond , Daniel F. Litim

We consider the asymptotic-safety scenario for quantum gravity which constructs a non-perturbatively renormalisable quantum gravity theory with the help of the functional renormalisation group. We verify the existence of a non-Gaussian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Astrid Eichhorn , Holger Gies , Michael M. Scherer