Asymptotically safe gravity with fermions

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2020.135775zbMATH Open1473.81124arXiv2005.12356OpenAlexW3031689913MaRDI QIDQ822402FDOQ822402

Authors: Jesse Daas, Wouter Oosters, Frank Saueressig, Ji'an Wang 

Publication date: 22 September 2021

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We use the functional renormalization group equation for the effective average action to study the fixed point structure of gravity-fermion systems on a curved background spacetime. We approximate the effective average action by the Einstein-Hilbert action supplemented by a fermion kinetic term and a coupling of the fermion bilinears to the spacetime curvature. The latter interaction is singled out based on a "smart truncation building principle". The resulting renormalization group flow possesses two families of interacting renormalization group fixed points extending to any number of fermions. The first family exhibits an upper bound on the number of fermions for which the fixed points could provide a phenomenologically interesting high-energy completion via the asymptotic safety mechanism. The second family comes without such a bound. The inclusion of the non-minimal gravity-matter interaction is crucial for discriminating the two families. Our work also clarifies the origin of the strong regulator-dependence of the fixed point structure reported in earlier literature and we comment on the relation of our findings to studies of the same system based on a vertex expansion of the effective average action around a flat background spacetime.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12356

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zbMATH Keywords

functional renormalization groupasymptotic safetyfermions in curved spacetimegravity-matter systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Fermionic systems in quantum theory (81V74) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10)

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