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Effective universality in quantum gravity
by Astrid Eichhorn, Peter Labus, Jan M. Pawlowski, Manuel Reichert
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Jan M. Pawlowski · Manuel Reichert |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00012v2 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | 2018-09-17 |
| Date submitted: | 2018-07-25 02:00 |
| Submitted by: | Reichert, Manuel |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
We investigate the asymptotic safety scenario for a scalar-gravity system. This system contains two avatars of the dynamical Newton coupling, a gravitational self-coupling and a scalar-graviton coupling. We uncover an effective universality for the dynamical Newton coupling on the quantum level: its momentum-dependent avatars are in remarkable quantitative agreement in the scaling regime of the UV fixed point. For the background Newton coupling, this effective universality is not present, but qualitative agreement remains.
List of changes
- extended motivation in the introduction
- added paragraph about STIs below equation (5)
- included Litim-type regulator and York-decomposition in App. A
- references updated
- other minor changes
Published as SciPost Phys. 5, 031 (2018)
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