Asymptotic safety in gravity and sigma models
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-08-17 v1
Abstract
There are deep analogies between Einstein's theory of gravity and the nonlinear sigma models. It is suggested that these similarities may extend also to the ultraviolet behaviour, in the sense that both theories could turn out to be asymptotically safe.
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@article{arxiv.0910.4951,
title = {Asymptotic safety in gravity and sigma models},
author = {R. Percacci},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.4951},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
Talk given at International Workshop on Continuum and Lattice Approaches to Quantum Gravity, Brighton, United Kingdom, 17-19 Sep 08. To appear in PoS