Fundamental aspects of asymptotic safety in quantum gravity

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-19507-6zbMATH Open1418.83004arXiv1812.07039OpenAlexW2810860672MaRDI QIDQ5222843FDOQ5222843

Authors: Zoë H. Slade 

Publication date: 4 July 2019

Published in: Springer Theses (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This thesis is devoted to exploring various fundamental issues within asymptotic safety. Firstly, we study the reconstruction problem and present two ways in which to solve it within the context of scalar field theory, by utilising a duality relation between an effective average action and a Wilsonian effective action. Along the way we also prove a duality relation between two effective average actions computed with different UV cutoff profiles. Next we investigate the requirement of background independence within the derivative expansion of conformally reduced gravity. We show that modified Ward identities are compatible with the flow equations if and only if either the anomalous dimension vanishes or the cutoff profile is chosen to be power law, and furthermore show that no solutions exist if the Ward identities are incompatible. In the compatible case, a clear reason is found why Ward identities can still forbid the existence of fixed points. By expanding in vertices, we also demonstrate that the combined equations generically become either over-constrained or highly redundant at the six-point level. Finally, we consider the asymptotic behaviour of fixed point solutions in the $f(R)$ approximation and explain in detail how to construct them. We find that quantum fluctuations do not decouple at large $R$, typically leading to elaborate asymptotic solutions containing several free parameters. Depending on the value of the endomorphism parameter, we find many other asymptotic solutions and fixed point spaces of differing dimension.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07039

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02)

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