Towards the determination of the dimension of the critical surface in asymptotically safe gravity

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2020.135773zbMATH Open1475.83112OpenAlexW3015580634MaRDI QIDQ823085FDOQ823085

Authors Kevin Falls, Nobuyoshi Ohta, R. Percacci 

Publication date 24 September 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04126

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15)

Abstract: We compute the beta functions of Higher Derivative Gravity within the Functional Renormalization Group approach, going beyond previously studied approximations. We find that the presence of a nontrivial Newtonian coupling induces, in addition to the free fixed point of the one-loop approximation, also two nontrivial fixed points, of which one has the right signs to be free from tachyons. Our results are consistent with earlier suggestions that the dimension of the critical surface for pure gravity is three.

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