scholarly journals Unimodular quantum gravity: steps beyond perturbation theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo P. de Brito ◽  
Antonio D. Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Point ◽  
Perturbation Theory ◽  
Renormalization Group ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Coarse Graining ◽  
Renormalization Group Flow ◽  
Anomalous Dimensions ◽  
Group Flow

Abstract The renormalization group flow of unimodular quantum gravity is computed by taking into account the graviton and Faddeev-Popov ghosts anomalous dimensions. In this setting, a ultraviolet attractive fixed point is found. Symmetry-breaking terms induced by the coarse-graining procedure are introduced and their impact on the flow is analyzed. A discussion on the equivalence of unimodular quantum gravity and standard full diffeomorphism invariant theories is provided beyond perturbation theory.

scholarly journals RENORMALIZATION GROUP FLOW EQUATIONS FOR THE SCALAR O(N) THEORY

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 2119-2124 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.-J. SCHAEFER ◽  
O. BOHR ◽  
J. WAMBACH
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Point ◽  
Renormalization Group ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Leading Order ◽  
Renormalization Group Flow ◽  
Derivative Expansion ◽  
Scalar Theory ◽  
Flow Equations ◽  
Self Consistent ◽  
Group Flow

Self-consistent new renormalization group flow equations for an O(N)-symmetric scalar theory are approximated in next-to-leading order of the derivative expansion. The Wilson-Fisher fixed point in three dimensions is analyzed in detail and various critical exponents are calculated.

scholarly journals ASYMPTOTIC SAFETY IN HIGHER-DERIVATIVE GRAVITY

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (28) ◽  
pp. 2233-2241 ◽  
Author(s):  
DARIO BENEDETTI ◽  
PEDRO F. MACHADO ◽  
FRANK SAUERESSIG
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Point ◽  
Renormalization Group ◽  
Renormalization Group Flow ◽  
Functional Renormalization Group ◽  
Asymptotic Safety ◽  
Higher Derivative ◽  
Gravity Theories ◽  
Group Flow ◽  
Nonperturbative Renormalization

We study the nonperturbative renormalization group flow of higher-derivative gravity employing functional renormalization group techniques. The nonperturbative contributions to the β-functions shift the known perturbative ultraviolet fixed point into a nontrivial fixed point with three UV-attractive and one UV-repulsive eigendirections, consistent with the asymptotic safety conjecture of gravity. The implication of this transition on the unitarity problem, typically haunting higher-derivative gravity theories, is discussed.

Evolution of the Robertson–Walker metric under 2-loop renormalization group flow

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (03) ◽  
pp. 1750021
Author(s):  
F. Hesamifard ◽  
M. M. Rezaii
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Point ◽  
Renormalization Group ◽  
Ricci Flow ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Renormalization Group Flow ◽  
Twisted Product ◽  
Walker Metric ◽  
Group Flow

Here, we study the evolution of a Robertson–Walker (RW) metric under the Ricci flow and 2-loop renormalization group flow (RG-2 flow). We show that a RW metric is a fixed point of the Ricci flow and it is not a solution of the RG-2 flow. RG-2 flow is considered on a doubly twisted product metric with further assumptions and also we introduce a necessary condition for existence of the solution of RG-2 flow.

scholarly journals The cubic fixed point at large N

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Damon J. Binder
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Point ◽  
Renormalization Group ◽  
Ising Model ◽  
Ising Models ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Renormalization Group Flow ◽  
Conformal Bootstrap ◽  
Large N ◽  
Group Flow ◽  
3D Ising Model

Abstract By considering the renormalization group flow between N coupled Ising models in the UV and the cubic fixed point in the IR, we study the large N behavior of the cubic fixed points in three dimensions. We derive a diagrammatic expansion for the 1/N corrections to correlation functions. Leading large N corrections to conformal dimensions at the cubic fixed point are then evaluated using numeric conformal bootstrap data for the 3d Ising model.

ON THE RENORMALIZATION GROUP FLOW IN N = 2 SUPERCONFORMAL MODELS

1990 ◽  
Vol 05 (27) ◽  
pp. 2261-2265 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. GAVA ◽  
M. STANISHKOV
Keyword(s):  
Perturbation Theory ◽  
Renormalization Group ◽  
Fixed Points ◽  
Renormalization Group Flow ◽  
Β Function ◽  
Group Flow ◽  
Chiral Superfield

We show that the β-function of N = 2 superconformal models perturbed by a slightly relevant chiral superfield does not have non-trivial IR fixed points to all orders in perturbation theory.

scholarly journals IRREVERSIBILITY OF THE RENORMALIZATION GROUP FLOW IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM GRAVITY

1992 ◽  
Vol 07 (31) ◽  
pp. 2943-2955 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID KUTASOV
Keyword(s):  
Renormalization Group ◽  
String Theory ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Renormalization Group Flow ◽  
Group Flow

We argue that the torus partition sum in 2D (super) gravity, which counts physical states in the theory, is a decreasing function of the renormalization group scale. As an application we chart the space of [Formula: see text] models coupled to (super) gravity, confirming and extending ideas due to A. Zamolodchikov, and discuss briefly string theory, where our results imply that the number of degrees of freedom decreases with time.

scholarly journals Generalized global symmetries of T[M] theories. Part I

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergei Gukov ◽  
Po-Shen Hsin ◽  
Du Pei
Keyword(s):  
Renormalization Group ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Dimensional Manifold ◽  
Renormalization Group Flow ◽  
Dimensional Theory ◽  
Group Flow ◽  
Group Symmetries ◽  
Chern Simons ◽  
Special Case

Abstract We study reductions of 6d theories on a d-dimensional manifold Md, focusing on the interplay between symmetries, anomalies, and dynamics of the resulting (6 −d)-dimensional theory T[Md]. We refine and generalize the notion of “polarization” to polarization on Md, which serves to fix the spectrum of local and extended operators in T[Md]. Another important feature of theories T[Md] is that they often possess higher-group symmetries, such as 2-group and 3-group symmetries. We study the origin of such symmetries as well as physical implications including symmetry breaking and symmetry enhancement in the renormalization group flow. To better probe the IR physics, we also investigate the ’t Hooft anomaly of 5d Chern-Simons matter theories. The present paper focuses on developing the general framework as well as the special case of d = 0 and 1, while an upcoming paper will discuss the case of d = 2, 3 and 4.

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