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We study the ultraviolet stability of gravity-matter systems for general numbers of minimally coupled scalars and fermions. This is done within the functional renormalisation group setup put forward in \cite{Christiansen:2015rva} for pure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-23 Jan Meibohm , Jan M. Pawlowski , Manuel Reichert

The asymptotic safety conjecture is examined for quantum gravity in four dimensions. Using the renormalisation group, we find evidence for an interacting UV fixed point for polynomial actions up to the 34th power in the Ricci scalar. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 Kevin Falls , Daniel F. Litim , Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos , Christoph Rahmede

We investigate the thermodynamics of a spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe within the framework of Generalized Proca (GP) theory, a comprehensive vector-tensor theory. By adopting two distinct dark energy models in GP,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Aofei Sang

Proca-Nuevo is a non-linear theory of a massive spin-1 field which enjoys a non-linearly realized constraint that distinguishes it among other generalized vector models. We show that the theory may be extended by the addition of operators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-30 Claudia de Rham , Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Lavinia Heisenberg , Victor Pozsgay

This is an introduction to asymptotically safe quantum gravity, explaining the main idea of asymptotic safety and how it could solve the problem of predictivity in quantum gravity. In the first part, the concept of an asymptotically safe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-03 Astrid Eichhorn

We study the non-perturbative renormalisation of quantum gravity in four dimensions. Taking care to disentangle physical degrees of freedom, we observe the topological nature of conformal fluctuations arising from the functional measure.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-27 Kevin Falls

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

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 review aspects of the interplay of asymptotically safe gravity with matter, focusing on the potential predictive power of the quantum scale-symmetry underlying the asymptotically safe fixed point. We explain how an asymptotically safe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-12 Astrid Eichhorn , Aaron Held

In Weinberg's asymptotic safety approach, a finite dimensional critical surface for a UV stable fixed point generates a theory of quantum gravity with a finite number of physical parameters. We argue that, in an extension of Feynman's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-14 B. F. L. Ward

We investigate the gravitational memory effect in the full Generalized Proca gravity, the most general metric theory including a gravitational Proca field with derivative self-interactions that still maintains second-order equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-29 Lavinia Heisenberg , Benedetta Rosatello , Guangzi Xu , Jann Zosso

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

The generalized SU(2) Proca theory is a vector-tensor modified gravity theory where the action is invariant under both diffeomorphisms and global internal transformations of the SU(2) group. This work constitutes the first approach to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-13 Jhan N. Martinez , Jose F. Rodriguez , Yeinzon Rodriguez , Gabriel Gomez

We study the asymptotic safety conjecture for quantum gravity in the presence of matter fields. A general line of reasoning is put forward explaining why gravitons dominate the high-energy behaviour, largely independently of the matter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-15 Nicolai Christiansen , Daniel F. Litim , Jan M. Pawlowski , Manuel Reichert

The Generalized SU(2) Proca (GSU2P) theory has recently garnered attention for its potential to describe key phases of cosmic evolution, including primordial inflation and late-time accelerated expansion. However, its full cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-17 Santiago Garcia-Serna , J. Bayron Orjuela-Quintana , Yeinzon Rodriguez , Gabriel Gomez , Cesar A. Valenzuela-Toledo

Generalised Proca theories of gravity represent an interesting class of vector-tensor theories where only three propagating degrees of freedom are present. In this work, we propose a new teleparallel gravity analog to Proca theories where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-25 Gianbattista-Piero Nicosia , Jackson Levi Said , Viktor Gakis

The asymptotic safety program assumes that quantum gravity becomes renormalizable through ultraviolet fixed points in metric-based couplings. We demonstrate that this approach {encounters fundamental symmetry violations} across multiple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-15 Farrukh A. Chishtie

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 black holes and stars in general relativity can be destabilized by perturbations of non-minimally coupled vector fields. Focusing on static and spherically symmetric backgrounds, our analysis shows that black holes with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-18 Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Aaron Held , Jun Zhang

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