Large curvature and background scale independence in single-metric approximations to asymptotic safety

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2016)160zbMATH Open1390.83068arXiv1610.03081OpenAlexW2531743723WikidataQ126011016 ScholiaQ126011016MaRDI QIDQ1636571FDOQ1636571

Tim R. Morris

Publication date: 12 June 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In single-metric approximations to the exact renormalization group (RG) for quantum gravity, it has been not been clear how to treat the large curvature domain beyond the point where the effective cutoff scale $k$ is less than the lowest eigenvalue of the appropriate modified Laplacian. We explain why this puzzle arises from background dependence, resulting in Wilsonian RG concepts being inapplicable. We show that when properly formulated over an ensemble of backgrounds, the Wilsonian RG can be restored. This in turn implies that solutions should be smooth and well defined no matter how large the curvature is taken. Even for the standard single-metric type approximation schemes, this construction can be rigorously derived by imposing a modified Ward identity (mWI) corresponding to rescaling the background metric by a constant factor. However compatibility in this approximation requires the space-time dimension to be six. Solving the mWI and flow equation simultaneously, new variables are then derived that are independent of overall background scale.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03081

zbMATH Keywords

renormalization groupmodels of quantum gravitynonperturbative effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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