Renormalization group flow in scalar-tensor theories. II.

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/27/7/075002zbMATH Open1188.83075arXiv0911.0394OpenAlexW3095712674MaRDI QIDQ3558415FDOQ3558415

Authors: Gaurav Narain, Christoph Rahmede 

Publication date: 5 May 2010

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the UV behaviour of actions including integer powers of scalar curvature and even powers of scalar fields with Functional Renormalization Group techniques. We find UV fixed points where the gravitational couplings have non-trivial values while the matter ones are Gaussian. We prove several properties of the linearized flow at such a fixed point in arbitrary dimensions in the one-loop approximation and find recursive relations among the critical exponents. We illustrate these results in explicit calculations in $d=4$ for actions including up to four powers of scalar curvature and two powers of the scalar field. In this setting we notice that the same recursive properties among the critical exponents, which were proven at one-loop order, still hold, in such a way that the UV critical surface is found to be five dimensional. We then search for the same type of fixed point in a scalar theory with minimal coupling to gravity in $d=4$ including up to eight powers of scalar curvature. Assuming that the recursive properties of the critical exponents still hold, one would conclude that the UV critical surface of these theories is five dimensional.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.0394

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zbMATH Keywords

renormalization group methodsrelativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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