Tuesday, March 20, 2012

1203.4207 (Ivan Donkin et al.)

The phase diagram of quantum gravity from diffeomorphism-invariant
RG-flows
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Ivan Donkin, Jan M. Pawlowski
We evaluate the phase diagram of quantum gravity within a fully diffeomorphism-invariant renormalisation group approach. The construction is based on the geometrical or Vilkovisky-DeWitt effective action. We also resolve the difference between the fluctuation metric and the background metric. This allows for fully background-independent flows in gravity. The results provide further evidence for the ultraviolet fixed point scenario in quantum gravity with quantitative changes for the fixed point physics. We also find a stable infrared fixed point related to classical Einstein gravity. Implications and possible extensions are discussed.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.4207

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