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The quantum action for a three-dimensional real sextic model using the background field method is considered. Four-loop renormalization of this model is performed with a cutoff regularization in the coordinate representation. The…

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We determine the full set of coefficients for the completely general 4-loop gauge and 3-loop Yukawa $ \beta $-functions for the most general renormalizable four-dimensional theories. Using a complete parametrization of the $ \beta…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-26 Joshua Davies , Florian Herren , Anders Eller Thomsen

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

We extend the recent one loop analysis of the ultraviolet completion of the $CP(N)$ nonlinear $\sigma$ model in six dimensions to two loop order in the MSbar scheme for an arbitrary covariant gauge. In particular we compute the anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 J. A. Gracey

We study quantum gravity in more than four dimensions with renormalisation group methods. We find a non-trivial ultraviolet fixed point in the Einstein-Hilbert action. The fixed point connects with the perturbative infrared domain through…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter Fischer , Daniel F. Litim

Large-$N$ renormalization group equations for one- and two-matrix models are derived. The exact renormalization group equation involving infinitely many induced interactions can be rewritten in a form that has a finite number of coupling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-25 Saburo Higuchi , Chigak Itoi , Shinsuke Nishigaki , Norisuke Sakai

We study the beta functions of the quartic and Yukawa couplings of General Relativity and Unimodular Gravity coupled to the $\lambda\phi^4$ and Yukawa theories with masses. We show that the General Relativity corrections to those beta…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-15 S. Gonzalez-Martin , C. P. Martin

We study the one loop renormalization in the most general metric-dilaton theory with second derivative only. In constant background dilaton theory, there are two types of gravity background which enable the theory renormalizable at one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Seiji Mukaigawa , Hiroyuki Takata

We study the general formulation of gauged supergravity in seven dimensions with sixteen supercharges keeping duality covariance by means of the embedding tensor formalism. We first classify all inequivalent duality orbits of consistent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Giuseppe Dibitetto , Jose J. Fernández-Melgarejo , Diego Marqués

We compute template formulae of all four-loop $\beta$-functions and anomalous dimensions of arbitrary renormalisable quantum field theories with fermions and scalar fields in the $\overline{\text{MS}}$ scheme. Using these results, novel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-02 Tom Steudtner

In this paper, we consider the $\beta$ function at one-loop approximation for noncommutative scalar QED. The renormalization of the full theory, including the basic vertices, and the renormalization group equation are fully established.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-27 M. Ghasemkhani , R. Bufalo , V. Rahmanpour , E. Nouri

By explicit solution of the one-loop finiteness conditions for all dimensionless coupling constants (i.~e., gauge coupling constant as well as Yukawa and quartic scalar-boson self-interaction coupling constants), two classes of grand…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Wolfgang Lucha , Franz F. SCHÖberl

We construct a consistent closure for the beta functions of the cosmological and Newton's constants by evaluating the influence of the fluctuating metric and ghost fields anomalous dimensions on their flow. In this generalized framework we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-18 Alessandro Codello , Giulio D'Odorico , Carlo Pagani

The renormalization structure of two-dimensional quantum gravity is investigated, in a covariant gauge. One-loop divergences of the effective action are calculated. All the surface divergent terms are taken into account, thus completing…

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

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

General relativity becomes vastly simpler in three spacetime dimensions: all vacuum solutions have constant curvature, and the moduli space of solutions can be almost completely characterized. As a result, this lower dimensional setting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-21 S. Carlip

We investigate gravitational correlation functions in a curved background with the help of nonperturbative renormalization group methods. Beta functions for eleven couplings are derived, two of which correspond to running gauge parameters.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-04 Benjamin Knorr , Stefan Lippoldt

We present a metric solution in six dimensions where gravity is localized on a four-dimensional singular string-like defect. The corrections to four-dimensional gravity from the bulk continuum modes are suppressed by ${\cal O}(1/r^3)$. No…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Tony Gherghetta , Mikhail Shaposhnikov

The exact one-loop beta functions for the four-derivative terms (Weyl tensor squared, Ricci scalar squared and the Gauss-Bonnet) are derived for the minimal six-derivative quantum gravity (QG) theory in four spacetime dimensions. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-29 Leslaw Rachwal , Leonardo Modesto , Aleksandr Pinzul , Ilya L. Shapiro

In this work, we investigate the computation of the counterterms necessary for the renormalization of the one-loop effective action of quantum gravity using both the worldline formalism and the heat kernel method. Our primary contribution…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-09 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Francesco Comberiati , Filippo Fecit , Fabio Ori