The renormalization group in perturbative quantum gravity

2021 ◽  
pp. 488-493
Author(s):  
Iosif L. Buchbinder ◽  
Ilya L. Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Renormalization Group ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Minimal Subtraction Scheme ◽  
Loop Approximation ◽  
Renormalization Group Equations ◽  
Gauge Fixing ◽  
Perturbative Renormalization ◽  
Fourth Derivative ◽  
Perturbative Quantum ◽  
The One

This is a short chapter summarizing the main results concerning the renormalization group in models of pure quantum gravity, without matter fields. The chapter starts with a critical analysis of non-perturbative renormalization group approaches, such as the asymptotic safety hypothesis. After that, it presents solid one-loop results based on the minimal subtraction scheme in the one-loop approximation. The polynomial models that are briefly reviewed include the on-shell renormalization group in quantum general relativity, and renormalization group equations in fourth-derivative quantum gravity and superrenormalizable models. Special attention is paid to the gauge-fixing dependence of the renormalization group trajectories.

scholarly journals On the Vilkovisky-DeWitt approach and renormalization group in effective quantum gravity

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Breno L. Giacchini ◽  
Tibério de Paula Netto ◽  
Ilya L. Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Renormalization Group ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Effective Action ◽  
Planck Scale ◽  
Renormalization Group Flow ◽  
Higher Derivative ◽  
Gauge Fixing ◽  
Total Action ◽  
The One ◽  
Group Flow

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.

scholarly journals NONCOMMUTATIVITY AND NON-ANTICOMMUTATIVITY PERTURBATIVE QUANTUM GRAVITY

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (13) ◽  
pp. 1250075 ◽  
Author(s):  
MIR FAIZAL
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Lagrangian Density ◽  
Background Field ◽  
Field Method ◽  
Gauge Fixing ◽  
Perturbative Quantum ◽  
Background Field Method

In this paper, we will study perturbative quantum gravity on supermanifolds with both noncommutativity and non-anticommutativity of spacetime coordinates. We shall first analyze the BRST and the anti-BRST symmetries of this theory. Then we will also analyze the effect of shifting all the fields of this theory in background field method. We will construct a Lagrangian density which apart from being invariant under the extended BRST transformations is also invariant under on-shell extended anti-BRST transformations. This will be done by using the Batalin–Vilkovisky (BV) formalism. Finally, we will show that the sum of the gauge-fixing term and the ghost term for this theory can be elegantly written down in superspace with a two Grassmann parameter.

scholarly journals The renormalization group equations revisited

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (26) ◽  
pp. 1830024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-François Mathiot
Keyword(s):  
Renormalization Group ◽  
Dimensional Regularization ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
Renormalization Group Equation ◽  
Group Equation ◽  
Coupling Constant ◽  
Loop Order ◽  
Subtraction Scheme ◽  
Minimal Subtraction Scheme ◽  
Renormalization Group Equations

Starting from a well-defined local Lagrangian, we analyze the renormalization group equations in terms of the two different arbitrary scales associated with the regularization procedure and with the physical renormalization of the bare parameters, respectively. We apply our formalism to the minimal subtraction scheme using dimensional regularization. We first argue that the relevant regularization scale in this case should be dimensionless. By relating bare and renormalized parameters to physical observables, we calculate the coefficients of the renormalization group equation up to two-loop order in the [Formula: see text] theory. We show that the usual assumption, considering the bare parameters to be independent of the regularization scale, is not a direct consequence of any physical argument. The coefficients that we find in our two-loop calculation are identical to the standard practice. We finally comment on the decoupling properties of the renormalized coupling constant.

scholarly journals WILSONIAN BLACK HOLE ENTROPY IN QUANTUM GRAVITY

1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 2823-2834
Author(s):  
SERGEI D. ODINTSOV ◽  
YONGSUNG YOON
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Renormalization Group ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Black Hole Entropy ◽  
Conformal Factor ◽  
Infrared Region ◽  
Coupling Constants ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Free Form ◽  
Renormalization Group Equations

Using the Wilsonian procedure (renormalization group improvement) we discuss the finite quantum corrections to black hole entropy in renormalizable theories. In this way, the Wilsonian black hole entropy is found for GUT’s (of asymptotically free form, in particular) and for the effective theory for the conformal factor aiming to describe quantum gravity in the infrared region. The off-critical regime (where the coupling constants are running) for the effective theory for the conformal factor in quantum gravity (with or without torsion) is explicitly constructed. The corresponding renormalization group equations for the effective couplings are found using the Schwinger-DeWitt technique for the calculation of the divergences of the fourth order operator.

scholarly journals 2D QUANTUM GRAVITY COUPLED TO RENORMALIZABLE MATTER FIELDS

1994 ◽  
Vol 09 (32) ◽  
pp. 5689-5709 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAN AMBJØRN ◽  
KAZUO GHOROKU
Keyword(s):  
Renormalization Group ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Effective Action ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Conformally Invariant ◽  
Renormalization Group Equations ◽  
Β Function ◽  
Matter Fields

We consider two-dimensional quantum gravity coupled to matter fields which are renormalizable but not conformally invariant. Questions concerning the β function and the effective action are addressed, and the effective action and the dressed renormalization group equations are determined for various matter potentials.

THE ASYMPTOTICALLY FREE AND ASYMPTOTICALLY CONFORMALLY INVARIANT GRAND UNIFICATION THEORIES IN CURVED SPACE-TIME

1990 ◽  
Vol 05 (20) ◽  
pp. 1599-1604 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.L. BUCHBINDER ◽  
I.L. SHAPIRO ◽  
E.G. YAGUNOV
Keyword(s):  
Renormalization Group ◽  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Gauge Group ◽  
Flat Space ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Grand Unification ◽  
Curved Space ◽  
Conformally Invariant ◽  
Renormalization Group Equations ◽  
The One

GUT’s in curved space-time is considered. The set of asymptotically free and asymptotically conformally invariant models based on the SU (N) gauge group is constructed. The general solutions of renormalization group equations are considered as the special ones. Several SU (2N) models, which are finite in flat space-time (on the one-loop level) and asymptotically conformally invariant in external gravitational field are also presented.

DISORDER-INDUCED INSTABILITY OF THE QUANTUM CRITICAL BEHAVIOR OF BOSE FLUIDS

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (05) ◽  
pp. 173-179
Author(s):  
I. P. TAKOV
Keyword(s):  
Renormalization Group ◽  
Critical Behavior ◽  
Short Range ◽  
Zero Temperature ◽  
Classical Systems ◽  
Renormalization Group Equations ◽  
Quantum Critical ◽  
The One ◽  
Quantum Critical Behavior ◽  
Short Range Correlations

The one-loop renormalization-group equations for Bose fluids with randomly distributed impurities are derived and analyzed with the help of a double ∊-expansion. While the low temperature critical behavior is similar to that of classical systems with extended impurities, the proper quantum critical behavior of disordered Bose fluids at zero temperature is unstable with respect to randomly distributed impurities with short-range correlations.

One-loop renormalization in quantum gravity

2021 ◽  
pp. 474-487
Author(s):  
Iosif L. Buchbinder ◽  
Ilya L. Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Models Of Quantum Gravity ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Polynomial Model ◽  
Similar Calculation ◽  
Higher Derivative ◽  
Gauge Fixing ◽  
Fourth Derivative ◽  
Detailed Derivation

This chapter demonstrates the basic methods of one-loop calculations in quantum gravity. Basing its discussion on the general results obtained in chapter 10, it first presents a detailed analysis of the gauge-fixing dependence of one-loop divergences in quantum general relativity and higher-derivative models of quantum gravity. After that, a detailed derivation of divergences in quantum general relativity is given, with the simplest parametrization of the quantum metric and minimal gauge fixing. One-loop divergences in the general (non-conformal) fourth-derivative quantum gravity are then derived in less detail. For a similar calculation in the superrenormalizable polynomial model (superrenormalizable gravity), the chapter just presents and discusses the final result.

scholarly journals Non-Perturbative Renormalization Group Equations in Quantum Hadrodynamics

2000 ◽  
Vol 103 (6) ◽  
pp. 1183-1198
Author(s):  
H. Kouno ◽  
M. Nakai ◽  
A. Hasegawa ◽  
M. Nakano
Keyword(s):  
Renormalization Group ◽  
Renormalization Group Equations ◽  
Perturbative Renormalization

scholarly journals A new method to solve the non-perturbative renormalization group equations

2006 ◽  
Vol 632 (4) ◽  
pp. 571-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Paul Blaizot ◽  
Ramón Méndez-Galain ◽  
Nicolás Wschebor
Keyword(s):  
Renormalization Group ◽  
New Method ◽  
Renormalization Group Equations ◽  
Perturbative Renormalization
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