Flowing to the continuum limit in tensor models for quantum gravity

DOI10.4171/AIHPD/52zbMATH Open1392.81191arXiv1701.03029OpenAlexW2963056456MaRDI QIDQ1645019FDOQ1645019

Authors: Astrid Eichhorn, Tim A. Koslowski 

Publication date: 28 June 2018

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré D. Combinatorics, Physics and their Interactions (AIHPD) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Tensor models provide a way to access the path-integral for discretized quantum gravity in d dimensions. As in the case of matrix models for two-dimensional quantum gravity, the continuum limit can be related to a Renormalization Group fixed point in a setup where the tensor size N serves as the Renormalization Group scale. We develop functional Renormalization Group tools for tensor models with a main focus on a rank-3 model for three-dimensional quantum gravity. We rediscover the double-scaling limit and provide an estimate for the scaling exponent. Moreover, we identify two additional fixed points with a second relevant direction in a truncation of the Renormalization Group flow. The new relevant direction might hint at the presence of additional degrees of freedom in the corresponding continuum limit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.03029

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityfunctional renormalization grouptensor model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Continuum limits in quantum field theory (81T27)

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