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The asymptotic safety scenario for quantum gravity

  • Antonio Pereira (Universität Heidelberg, Germany)
E1 05 (Leibniz-Saal)

Abstract

General relativity is known to be perturbatively non-renormalizable as a standard quantum field theory. Nevertheless, it is logically possible that an interacting ultraviolet fixed-point exists in the renormalization group flow and quantum gravity can be described as a predictive and UV-complete quantum field theory. Such a possibility was baptized as the asymptotic safety scenario for quantum gravity. In this talk I will discuss this approach, some of its important achievements and supporting evidences and point out present challenges.

Antje Vandenberg

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig), Germany Contact via Mail

Felix Finster

University of Regensburg, Germany

Domenico Giulini

University of Hanover, Germany

Jürgen Jost

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig), Germany

Johannes Kleiner

University of Hanover, Germany

Jürgen Tolksdorf

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig), Germany