Relational observables in asymptotically safe gravity

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2022.168822MaRDI QIDQ2127442zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alessio Baldazzi, Kevin Falls, Renata Ferrero

Publication date 20 April 2022

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02118

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic safetyfunctional renormalisation groupquantum gravityrelational observables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Series expansions (e.g., Taylor, Lidstone series, but not Fourier series) (41A58) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Special bases (entangled, mutual unbiased, etc.) (81P55) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We introduce an approach to compute the renormalisation group flow of relational observables in quantum gravity which evolve from their microscopic expressions towards the full quantum expectation value. This is achieved by using the composite operator formalism of the functional renormalisation group. These methods can be applied to a large class of relational observables within a derivative expansion for different physical coordinate systems. As a first application we consider four scalar fields coupled to gravity to represent the physical coordinate frame from which relational observables can be constructed. At leading order of the derivative expansion the observables are the inverse relational metric and the relational scalar curvature. We evaluate their scaling dimensions at the fixed point, both in the standard renormalisation group scheme and in the essential scheme. This represents the first steps to describe running observables within asymptotic safety; this treatment can be generalised to other observables constructed from different tensors and in different physical coordinate systems.

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