A functional renormalization group equation for foliated spacetimes

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2013)010zbMATH Open1342.83258arXiv1212.5114OpenAlexW3104076849WikidataQ62122266 ScholiaQ62122266MaRDI QIDQ302789FDOQ302789

Authors: Stefan Rechenberger, Frank Saueressig 

Publication date: 12 August 2016

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

Abstract: We derive an exact functional renormalization group equation for the projectable version of Hov{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity. The flow equation encodes the gravitational degrees of freedom in terms of the lapse function, shift vector and spatial metric and is manifestly invariant under background foliation-preserving diffeomorphisms. Its relation to similar flow equations for gravity in the metric formalism is discussed in detail, and we argue that the space of action functionals, invariant under the full diffeomorphism group, forms a subspace of the latter invariant under renormalization group transformations. As a first application we study the RG flow of the Newton constant and the cosmological constant in the ADM formalism. In particular we show that the non-Gaussian fixed point found in the metric formulation is qualitatively unaffected by the change of variables and persists also for Lorentzian signature metrics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5114

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zbMATH Keywords

renormalization groupmodels of quantum gravitynonperturbative effectsspace-time symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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