Asymptotic Safety in Quantum Gravity  

In General > s.a. non-renormalizable theories; renormalization of quantum gravity.
* Idea: Quantum gravity with a cosmological constant has a non-Gaussian UV fixed point; The first-order, tetrad + connection form also has one, probably inequivalent to the metric gravity one.
* Underlying physical mechanism: (Nink & Reuter 2012) The inverse propagator for metric fluctuations contains two pieces, a covariant Laplacian and a curvature-dependent potential term; These can be interpreted, respectively, as diamagnetic and paramagnetic-type interactions of the metric fluctuations of spacetime, considered as a polarizable medium, with the background gravitational field.
@ Reviews: Niedermaier CQG(07)gq/06; Niedermaier & Reuter LRR(06); Percacci in(09)-a0709 [rev]; Litim PoS-a0810; Percacci a1110-proc [short introduction]; Reuter & Saueressig NJP(12)-a1202 [pedagogical introduction]; Reuter & Saueressig LNP(12)-a1205 [and possible multifractal structure]; Ambjørn et al NJP(12) [focus issue]; Eichhorn a1709-proc, a1810-Front; Bonanno et al a2004 [critical reflection on the state of the art]; Eichhorn a2003-proc.
@ General references: Weinberg in(79); Souma PTP(99)ht, gq/00; Lauscher & Reuter PRD(02)ht/01, CQG(02)ht/01, IJMPA(02)ht/01; Litim PRL(04)ht/03 [Euclidean, arbitrary dimension]; Percacci PRD(06)ht/05; Emoto gq/06-conf; Ward MPLA(08)-a0808 [predictions for G and Λ, resummation techniques]; Niedermaier PRL(09), NPB(10) [from perturbation theory]; Daum & Reuter PLB(12)-a1012 [using the Holst action]; Manrique et al PRL(11)-a1102 [Lorentzian]; Benedetti NJP(12)-a1107 [on shell]; Litim & Satz a1205 [limit cycles]; Nink & Reuter JHEP(13)-a1208, IJMPD(13)-a1212-MG13 [underlying physical mechanism]; Benedetti EPL(13)-a1301 [number of relevant operators]; Falls et al JHEP(16)-a1410 [strong support for the conjecture]; Biemans et al PRD(17)-a1609; Falls et al PRD(19)-a1810; Slade a1812-PhD; Saueressig et al a1901 [scales and hierachies]; Becker & Pagani PRD(19)-a1810 [geometric operators]; Donoghue FrPh(20)-a1911 [critique].
@ Renormalization group: Percacci & Perini CQG(04)ht [fixed point]; Codello et al AP(09) [Wilsonian renormalization group equation]; Christiansen et al a1209 [and fixed points]; Falls a1503 [scaling behaviour]; Pereira a1904-proc [and tensor models, coarse-graining]; Falls et al PLB(20)-a2004 [dimension of the critical surface].
@ Formalism, techniques: Gionti a1805-proc [Hamiltonian formalism]; Moti & Shojai PLB(19)-a1812 [new cutoff identification and improvement]; Knorr et al CQG(19)-a1907 [computational toolbox, Mathematica notebooks]; Kwapisz & Meissner NPB(21)-a2005 [and amplitudes]; Pawlowski & Reichert a2007 [fluctuation approach].
@ Related topics: Reuter & Weyer PRD(09)-a0804 [and diffeomorphism invariance]; Reuter & Weyer GRG(09)-a0903-conf [role of background independence]; Benedetti et al AIP(09)-a0909 [role of higher-derivative terms]; Manrique et al AP(11)-a1005 [bimetric renormalization-group flow]; Falls JHEP(16)-a1408 [and the cosmological constant]; Nink a1701-PhD [background independence and unitarity, and the 2D case]; Houthoff et al EPJC(17)-a1705 [ADM formulation on a background spacetime with topology S1 × Sd]; Einhorn & Jones PRD(17)-a1710 [asymptotic freedom]; Knorr a2104 [derivative expansion]; > s.a. UV Completion.

Matter and Other Gravity Theories > s.a. approaches to quantum gravity; dynamical triangulations and causal dynamical triangulations; fractal spacetime.
* With matter: The existence of non-Gaussian renormalization group fixed points is rather generic; In particular, the matter content of the standard model and its most common extensions gives rise to one non-Gaussian fixed point with real critical exponents suitable for Asymptotic Safety, and there are non-Gaussian fixed points for any number of scalar matter fields.
@ With other variables: Daum & Reuter a1111-proc, AP(13) [vielbein and spin-connection variables, running Immirzi parameter]; Harst & Reuter JHEP(12)-a1203 [tetrad-only gravity]; Harst & Reuter PLB(15)-a1509 [with selfdual/anti-selfdual spin-connection, likely asymptotically safe].
@ With scalar fields: Percacci & Perini PRD(03)ht; Henz et al PLB(13)-a1304 [dilaton]; Donà et al PRD(14) [compatibility of minimally-coupled matter]; Donà et al PRD(16)-a1512; Christiansen et al PRD(18)-a1710; Eichhorn et al SPP(18)-a1804 [universality]; Eichhorn & Held a1907-proc [and particle physics].
@ With fermion fields: Vacca & Zanusso PRL(10)-a1009 [and scalar]; Meibohm et al PRD(16)-a1510 [and scalar]; Meibohm & Pawlowski EPJC(16)-a1601 [chiral]; Biemans et al JHEP(17)-a1702 [minimally coupled scalar, vector, and Dirac fields, ADM formalism]; Eichhorn et al PRD(19)-a1812; Daas et al PLB(20)-a2005.
@ With other fields: Eichhorn et al PLB(19)-a1810 [near-perturbative completion of the Standard Model with gravity].
@ Higher-order gravity: Codello & Percacci PRL(06)ht, Codello et al IJMPA(07)-a0705 [f(R) gravity]; Benedetti et al MPLA(09)-a0901; Ohta CQG(12)-a1205 [higher-derivative gravity]; Ohta & Percacci CQG(14)-a1308 [in various dimensions]; González-Martín et al PRD(17)-a1704 [asymptotic solutions]; Einhorn & Jones PRD(17)-a1710 [quadratic, without ghosts or tachyons]; Falls et al PRD(18)-a1801; Alkofer & Saueressig AP(18)-a1802 [f(R) gravity coupled to matter].
@ Other theories: Fischer & Litim PLB(06)ht, Litim AIP(06)ht [D > 4]; Reuter & Weyer PRD(09)-a0801 [conformally reduced gravity]; Cai & Easson PRD(12) [effective scalar-tensor theory]; Eichhorn et al JHEP(20)-a1909 [grand-unified extension]; > s.a. deformed special relativity; hořava gravity [candidate UV completion]; unimodular quantum gravity.

Phenomenology > s.a. black-hole quasinormal modes; dark energy; quantum-gravity effects on geometry [collapse] and particle properties.
@ General references: Litim PTRS(11)-a1102 [applications]; Bonanno PRD(12)-a1203 [effective action, early-universe implications]; Eichhorn et al PRD(18)-a1710 [viability test]; Platania a2003-FiP [rev, antiscreening in cosmology].
@ Matter properties and interactions: Hewett & Rizzo JHEP(07)-a0707, Litim & Plehn PRL(08)-a0707 [collider signals]; Döbrich & Eichhorn JHEP(12)-a1203, Eichhorn a1210-MG13 [photon-photon scattering]; Eichhorn PRD(12) [scalar field self-interactions]; Bosma et al PRL(19)-a1904 [graviton propagator and Newtonian potential]; de Brito et al JHEP(19)-a1907 [towards phenomenological tests].
@ Spacetime geometry: Reuter & Schwindt JPA(07)ht/06, JHEP(07) [scale-dependent metric and minimum length]; Manrique & Reuter AP(10)-a0907 [background metric]; Percacci & Vacca CQG(10)-a1008 [emergence and minimal length]; Kurov & Saueressig a2004 [characterizing the quantum geometry]; Zarikas & Kofinas JPCS(18)-a2006 [singularities]; > s.a. singularities in quantum gravity [avoidance].
@ Astrophysics and black holes: Bonanno PoS-a0911 [astrophysical implications]; Becker & Reuter JHEP(12)-a1205, a1212-MG13 [non-trivial boundaries, and black-hole thermodynamics]; Koch et al a1311-conf [black holes]; Koch & Saueressig CQG(14) [structural aspects], IJMPA(14)-a1401 [rev]; Held et al JCAP(19)-a1904 [black-hole shadows].
@ Cosmology: Fang & Huang EPJC(13)-a1210 [trouble with asymptotically-safe inflation]; Bonanno & Saueressig CRP(17)-a1702 [rev]; Platania a1908-proc [cmb spectrum]; > s.a. dark energy.
> Related topics: see fine-structure constant.


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