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Asymptotic safety is a candidate for a predictive quantum theory of gravity and matter. Recent works (arXiv:2412.10194 and arXiv:2412.14108) challenged this scenario. We show that their arguments fail on a basic level.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-17 Aaron Held , Benjamin Knorr , Jan M. Pawlowski , Alessia Platania , Manuel Reichert , Frank Saueressig , Marc Schiffer

Path integrals and the Wilsonian renormalization group provide two complementary computational tools for investigating continuum approaches to quantum gravity. The starting points of these constructions utilize a bare action and a fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-31 Mathijs Fraaije , Alessia Platania , Frank Saueressig

We compute non-perturbative flow equations for the couplings of quantum gravity in fourth order of a derivative expansion. The gauge invariant functional flow equation for arbitrary metrics allows us to extract $\beta$-functions for all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-24 Saswato Sen , Christof Wetterich , Masatoshi Yamada

Physics in the vicinity of an ultraviolet stable fixed point of a quantum field theory is parametrized by a renormalization group invariant macroscopic length scale, the correlation length $\xi,$ with the quantum effective action a function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vipul Periwal

The Asymptotic Safety Hypothesis for gravity relies on the existence of an interacting fixed point of the Wilsonian renormalization group flow, which controls the microscopic dynamics, and provides a UV completion of the theory. Connecting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-17 Agustín Silva

We study four-dimensional quantum gravity using non-perturbative renormalization group methods. We solve the corresponding equations for the fully momentum-dependent propagator, Newton's coupling and the cosmological constant. For the first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Nicolai Christiansen , Benjamin Knorr , Jan M. Pawlowski , Andreas Rodigast

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

Motivated by the conjecture that the cosmological constant problem is 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 class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Reuter , F. Saueressig

In the framework of dimensional regularization, we propose a generalization of the renormalization group equations in the case of the perturbative quantum gravity that involves renormalization of the metric and of the higher order Riemann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Sergey N. Solodukhin

We apply the renormalization group (RG) method to examine the observable scaling properties in Newtonian cosmology. The original scaling properties of the equations of motion in our model are modified for averaged observables on constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Sota , T. Kobayashi , K. Maeda , T. Kurokawa , M. Morikawa , A. Nakamichi

The quantum gravitational contribution to the renormalization group behavior of the electric charge in Einstein-Maxwell theory with a cosmological constant is considered. Quantum gravity is shown to lead to a contribution to the running…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 David J. Toms

We study the exact renormalization group (RG) in $R^2$-gravity in the effective average action formalism using the background field method. The truncated evolution equation (where truncation is made to low-derivatives functionals space) for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 L. N. Granda , S. D. Odintsov

We evaluate the phase diagram of quantum gravity within a fully diffeomorphism-invariant renormalisation group approach. The construction is based on the geometrical or Vilkovisky-DeWitt effective action. We also resolve the difference…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-20 Ivan Donkin , Jan M. Pawlowski

We study quantum effects in higher curvature extensions of general relativity using the functional renormalisation group. New flow equations are derived for general classes of models involving Ricci scalar, Ricci tensor, and Riemann tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-19 Yannick Kluth , Daniel Litim

The quantum Einstein gravity is treated by the functional renormalization group method using the Einstein-Hilbert action. The ultraviolet non-Gaussian fixed point is determined and its corresponding exponent of the correlation length is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Nagy , B. Fazekas , L. Juhasz , K. Sailer

Weinberg's asymptotic safety scenario provides an elegant mechanism to construct a quantum theory of gravity within the framework of quantum field theory based on a non-Gau{\ss}ian fixed point of the renormalization group flow. In this work…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-01 Holger Gies , Benjamin Knorr , Stefan Lippoldt , Frank Saueressig

We find considerable evidence supporting the conjecture that four-dimensional Quantum Einstein Gravity is ``asymptotically safe'' in Weinberg's sense. This would mean that the theory is likely to be nonperturbatively renormalizable and thus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Lauscher , M. Reuter

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

We explore the renormalization group (RG) properties of quantum gravity, using the vielbein and the spin connection as the fundamental field variables. We require the effective action to be invariant under the semidirect product of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-07 Jan-Eric Daum , Martin Reuter

We explore the phenomenology of nontrivial quantum effects on low-energy gravity. These effects come from the running of the gravitational coupling parameter G and the cosmological constant L in the Einstein-Hilbert action, as induced by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-21 Davi C. Rodrigues , Oliver F. Piattella , Júlio C. Fabris , Ilya L. Shapiro