scholarly journals Cosmic inflation as a renormalization-group flow: the running of power spectra in quantum gravity

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (01) ◽  
pp. 048-048
Author(s):  
Damiano Anselmi
1992 ◽  
Vol 07 (31) ◽  
pp. 2943-2955 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID KUTASOV

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.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Breno L. Giacchini ◽  
Tibério de Paula Netto ◽  
Ilya L. Shapiro

Abstract The effective action in quantum general relativity is strongly dependent on the gauge-fixing and parametrization of the quantum metric. As a consequence, in the effective approach to quantum gravity, there is no possibility to introduce the renormalization-group framework in a consistent way. On the other hand, the version of effective action proposed by Vilkovisky and DeWitt does not depend on the gauge-fixing and parametrization off- shell, opening the way to explore the running of the cosmological and Newton constants as well as the coefficients of the higher-derivative terms of the total action. We argue that in the effective framework the one-loop beta functions for the zero-, two- and four-derivative terms can be regarded as exact, that means, free from corrections coming from the higher loops. In this perspective, the running describes the renormalization group flow between the present-day Hubble scale in the IR and the Planck scale in the UV.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo P. de Brito ◽  
Antonio D. Pereira

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.


2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 2011-2028 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARTIN REUTER ◽  
HOLGER WEYER

The nonperturbative renormalization group flow of quantum Einstein gravity (QEG) is reviewed. It is argued that at large distances there could be strong renormalization effects, including a scale dependence of Newton's constant, which mimic the presence of dark matter at galactic and cosmological scales.


2021 ◽  
pp. 136450
Author(s):  
Pavan Kumar Yerra ◽  
Chandrasekhar Bhamidipati

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
François Delduc ◽  
Sylvain Lacroix ◽  
Konstantinos Sfetsos ◽  
Konstantinos Siampos

Abstract In the study of integrable non-linear σ-models which are assemblies and/or deformations of principal chiral models and/or WZW models, a rational function called the twist function plays a central rôle. For a large class of such models, we show that they are one-loop renormalizable, and that the renormalization group flow equations can be written directly in terms of the twist function in a remarkably simple way. The resulting equation appears to have a universal character when the integrable model is characterized by a twist function.


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