Benjamin Knorr: Safe essential scalar-tensor theories
We discuss the renormalisation group flow of all essential couplings of quantum gravity coupled to a shift-symmetric scalar field at fourth order in the deri...
Past seminars
2022
Ivano Basile: Asymptotic safety and the swampland
We propose testing the paradigm of asymptotically safe gravity using swampland conjectures. As a first step in this direction, we explore the infrared regime...
Maximilian Becker: Background Independent Field Quantization with Sequences of Gravity-Coupled Approximants
We apply the new quantization scheme outlined in M. Becker and M. Reuter, Phys. Rev. D 102, 125001 (2020), to explore the influence which quantum vacuum fluc...
Edoardo D’Angelo: Wetterich equation on lorentzian manifolds
The Wetterich equation governs the renormalization flow of the effective action under the scaling of an IR cutoff. In this talk, I introduce a generalization...
Gustavo de Brito: Nonvanishing gravitational contribution to matter beta functions for vanishing dimensionful regulators
In this talk, I will explore the effect of quantum gravity on matter couplings within a Renormalization Group framework. In particular, I will focus on resul...
Christof Wetterich: The quantum gravity connection between inflation and quintessence
The scaling solution of the functional flow in dilaton quantum gravity leads to highly predictive cosmology. Inflation and quintessence can both be described...
Rudrajit Banerjee: The spatial Functional Renormalization Group and Hadamard states on cosmological spacetimes
A spatial variant of the Functional Renormalization Group (FRG) is introduced on (Lorentzian signature) globally hyperbolic spacetimes. Through its perturbat...
Chris Ripken: De Sitter scattering amplitudes in the Born approximation
A basic calculation in QFT is the construction of the Yukawa potential from a tree-level scattering amplitude. In the massless limit, this reproduces the 1/r...
Renata Ferrero: Relational Observables in Asymptotically Safe Gravity
One of the greatest issues for a quantum theory of gravitation is how to generalise the notion of local observable quantities. A viable approach is to constr...
Dalius Stulga: Provable properties of asymptotic safety in the f(R) approximation
In this talk I will describe how we can derive general properties of the fixed-point solutions to the flow equations in the f(R) approximation using a family...
Tom Steudtner: Explaining B-Anomalies with safe Z’ extensions
U(1)’ extensions of the SM with generation-dependent couplings to quarks and leptons are a popular explanation of anomalies in rare B-decays, such as the R_K...
Jian Wang : Scalar-tensor theories within asymptotic safety
In this work we use the Wetterich equation for the effective average action to investigate the RG flow of gravity supplemented by a real scalar field. We giv...
Saswato Sen: Asymptotic safety and freedom in higher derivative gravity
We compute non-perturbative flow equations for the couplings of quantum gravity in fourth order of a derivative expansion. The gauge invariant functional flo...
Manuel Reichert: Lorentzian quantum gravity and the graviton spectral function
We present the first direct and non-perturbative computation of the graviton spectral function in quantum gravity. This is achieved with the help of a novel ...
Focus Seminar: The graviton propagator in Asymptotic Safety (Benjamin Knorr, Alessia Platania, and Manuel Reichert)
The propagator stores important information about the causality and unitarity of a theory, and is related to the spectral function, if it exists. Studying th...
Kamila Kowalska: Implications for g-2 and dark matter from asymptotic safety
We use the framework of asymptotic safety above the Planck scale to constrain the parameter space of simple models of new physics that can accommodate the me...
2021
Rafael Robson Lino dos Santos: The weak-gravity bound and the need for spin in asymptotically safe matter-gravity models
In this talk, we introduce the weak-gravity bound for scalar-gravity systems within the asymptotic-safety paradigm. The weak-gravity bound arises when gravit...
Kevin Falls: Essential Quantum Einstein Gravity
The non-perturbative renormalisation of quantum gravity is investigated allowing for the metric to be reparameterised along the RG flow, such that only the e...
Alessio Baldazzi: Essential renormalization group
We use the generalised flow of the Effective average action which incorporates field redefinitions along the RG flow. This equation allows for the implementa...
Focus Seminar: Black Holes in Asymptotic Safety (Frank Saueressig & Aaron Held)
Black holes are vital for a consistent description of gravitational wave events as well as the recent image of the Event Horizon Telescope. However, black ho...
Shouryya Ray: Towards a Higgs Mass Determination in Asymptotically Safe Gravity with a Dark Portal
There are reasons to believe that extensions to the Standard Model that tend to lower the Higgs mass are phenomenologically attractive. (For one thing, it wo...
Lisa Glaser: Ising Spins and Causal Sets
Causal sets are a theory that encodes space-time through the causal relations between events. This leads to a fundamentally Lorentzian, discrete, formulation...
Benjamin Knorr: The derivative expansion in asymptotically safe quantum gravity: general setup and quartic order
We present a general framework to systematically study the derivative expansion of asymptotically safe quantum gravity. It is based on an exact decoupling an...
Tobias Denz: Reconstructing the graviton
We reconstruct the Lorentzian graviton propagator in asymptotically safe quantum gravity from Euclidean data. The reconstruction is applied to both the dynam...
Ivano Basile: String Tension between de Sitter vacua and Curvature Corrections
Higher-derivative corrections to cosmological effective actions in string theory are largely constrained by T-duality, but have been computed hitherto only t...
Alex Mitchell-Lister: A continuum limit of quantum gravity at second order in perturbation theory
In this talk we discuss the most recent step in an approach to finding the continuum limit of quantum gravity using the exact renormalization group and the c...
Adrien Florio: Searching for continuous phase transitions in 5D SU(2) lattice gauge theory
We study the phase diagram of 5-dimensional SU(2) Yang-Mills theory on the lattice. We consider two extensions of the fundamental plaquette Wilson action in ...
Abdol Sabor Salek: A curvature bound from gravitational catalysis in thermal backgrounds
A suitable candidate for a UV-complete quantum theory of gravity needs to be compatible with the existence of chiral fermions. Studies of quantum fields in c...
Judah Unmuth-Yockey: Newtonian binding from lattice quantum
We consider a free scalar field on Euclidean dynamical triangulations. By studying the 1-particle and 2-particle correlation functions, we extract the bindi...
Raúl Carballo Rubio: Mass inflation and the semiclassical limit of quantum black holes
Geometries describing static non-singular black holes have been obtained in suitable limits of various quantum gravity frameworks, including asymptotic safet...
Seth Kurankyi Asante: Effective spin foam models for four dimensional quantum gravity
A number of approaches to four-dimensional quantum gravity, such as loop quantum gravity and holography, situate areas as their fundamental variables. These ...
Passant Ali: Constraints on discrete global symmetries in quantum gravity
The question whether global symmetries can be realized in quantum-gravity-matter-systems has far-reaching phenomenological consequences. During my talk I wil...
Renata Ferrero: Dynamical diffeomorphisms
We consider a class of models for dynamical dark energy: we construct a general effective dynamics for diffeomorphisms of spacetime, in a fixed external metr...
2020
Yannick Kluth: Fixed Points of Quantum Gravity and the Dimensionality of the UV Critical Surface
In this talk, the fixed point structure of asymptotically safe quantum gravity is tested for actions containing squares of the Riemann tensor and the Ricci s...
Alessia Platania: Non-perturbative unitarity and fictitious ghosts in quantum gravity
According to the asymptotic-safety conjecture, a (non-perturbatively) renormalizable quantum field theory of gravity could be constructed based on the existe...
Enrico Sessolo: Flavor anomalies from asymptotically safe gravity
I will describe how the framework of asymptotically safe quantum gravity can be employed to derive novel predictions for some well-known new physics solution...
Jesse Daas: Asymptotically Safe Gravity with Fermions
In this talk the fixed point structure of gravity-fermion systems on a curved background spacetime will be discussed using the functional renormalization gro...
Jobst Ziebell: Asymptotically Safe QED
High-energy completeness of quantum electrodynamics (QED) can be induced by an interacting ultraviolet fixed point of the renormalization flow. We provide ev...
Martin Pauly: Safety in Darkness: Towards asymptotically safe dark matter models
Asymptotic safety might have significant predictive implications for dark matter models. I illustrate this in a toy model for the visible Higgs-Yukawa sector...
Jan Kwapisz: Asymptotic safety and quantum gravity amplitudes
Application of the Weinberg’s conditions of asymptotic safety to amplitudes and not to couplings of the effective action can help to uniquely define the runn...
Leslaw Rachwal: Effective action from FRG
We study the quantum gravitational system coupled to a charged scalar, Dirac fermions, and electromagnetic fields. We use the “exact” or “functional” renorma...
Kevin Falls: Background independent exact renormalisation
I will discuss a new flow equation for the Wilsonian effective action based on a gauge invariant UV regularisation of gauge theories and gravity. The regular...
Maximiliano Binder: Functional Renormalization Group Flow of Massive Gravity
We apply the functional renormalization group equation to a massive Fierz–Pauli action in curved space and find that, even though a massive term is a modif...
Frank Saueressig: Spectroscopy of the Reuter fixed point from the composite operator formalism
Determining the structure of the UV-critical hypersurface, spanned by renormalization group trajectories enjoying asymptotic safety, is a highly complex prob...
Alicia Castro: FRG Approach to the Continuum Limit of Matrix Models of Quantum Gravity with Preferred Foliation
In this talk I will present the analysis of a dually-weighted Matrix Model which implements a preferred foliation in its dual-graph. By using the FRGE, we st...
Yu Hamada: Scalegenesis and fermionic dark matters in the flatland scenario
Recent studies in the context of asymptotically safe quantum gravity imply that scalar quartic couplings and scalar masses vanish above the Planck scale due ...
Bertrand Delamotte: Convergence of the derivative expansion and results at order ∂6
The derivative expansion (DE) is the most commonly used approximation scheme of Wilson’s renormalization group (RG), at least when it is formulated in terms ...
Tom Steudtner: Exact asymptotic safety: new solutions and large-N equivalences
We explore 4d gauge-Yukawa theories with weakly coupled UV fixed points. Using Majorana fermions, new families of theories with perturbatively exact asymptot...
2019
Manuel Reichert: Dark Matter meets Quantum Gravity
We search for an extension of the Standard Model that contains a viable dark matter candidate and that can be embedded into a fundamental, asymptotically saf...
Gustavo Pazzini de Brito: A link that matters: Towards phenomenological constraints on quantum gravity models
Constraining quantum gravity from observations is a challenge. In this seminar, I explore the idea that the interplay of quantum gravity with matter could be...
Axel Maas: The Fröhlich-Morcchio-Strocchi Mechanism and Quantum Gravity
Taking manifest invariance under both gauge symmetry and diffeomorphisms as a guiding principle physical objects are constructed for Yang-Mills-Higgs theory ...
Peter Millington: Exact flow equations from the regulator-sourced 2PI effective action
The effective action is a powerful tool for studying the non-perturbative behaviour of quantum field theories. In this talk, we will revisit the derivation ...
Frank Saueressig: Form Factors in Asymptotic Safety
By definition, form factors capture the momentum dependence of a theory’s n-point function. For example, they may encode corrections to the propagation of fi...
Marc Schiffer: d=4 as the critical dimensionality of asymptotically safe interactions
In my talk, I explore the question why our universe is four dimensional from an asymptotically safe vantage point. I present indications that asymptotically ...
Alessia Platania: Dynamical renormalization of black-hole spacetimes
We construct a black-hole spacetime which includes the running of the gravitational coupling in a self-consistent way. Starting from a classical Schwarzschil...
Masatoshi Yamada: Higgs scalar potential in asymptotically safe quantum gravity
The effect of gravitational fluctuations on the quantum effective potential for scalar fields is a key ingredient for predictions of the mass of the Higgs bo...
Tim Morris: Trace anomaly and infrared cutoffs
The Effective Average Action is a form of effective action which depends on a cutoff scale suppressing the contribution of low momentum modes in the function...
Maximilian Becker: Geometric Operators in Asymptotic Safety
We consider geometric operators, such as the geodesic length and the volume of hypersurfaces, in the context of the Asymptotic Safety scenario for quantum gr...
Benjamin Knorr: RG flow with a covariant foliation
After a short introduction on how to set up a foliation in a covariant language, I will use this formalism to investigate the RG flow on foliated spacetimes....
Jan Kwapsiz: Asymptotic safety and Conformal Standard Model
There are many proposals how to extend the Standard Model, designed to deal with its fundamental inconsistencies. Since no new particles have been detected e...
2018
Senarath de Alwis: Exact RG equations, Quantum Gravity and Ghosts
I derive an exact RG equation for the Wilsonian Effective Action, that is essentially a background field (and gauge invariant) version of the Polchinski equa...
Dine Ousmane Samary: Progress in the solving nonperturbative renormalization group for tensorial group field theory
This presentation aims at giving our new advance on the functional renormalization group applied to tensorial group field theory. It is based on a serie of o...
Johannes Lumma: Towards background independent quantum gravity with tensor models
We explore whether the phase diagram of tensor models could feature a pregeometric, discrete and a geometric, continuum phase for the building blocks of spac...
Marc Schiffer: How perturbative is quantum gravity?
We explore asymptotic safety of gravity-matter systems, discovering indications for a near-perturbative nature of these systems in the ultraviolet. Our resul...
Giulia Gubitosi and Chris Ripken: Consistent early and late time cosmology from the RG flow of gravity
We explain how the quantum gravity regime associated with Asymptotic Safety may set the initial conditions for a consistent cosmological evolution, from the ...
Carlos M. Nieto: In search of a UV completion of the Standard Model
Asymptotically safe extensions of the Standard Model have been searched for by adding vector-like fermions charged under the Standard Model gauge group and h...
Gustavo Pazzini de Brito: Asymptotic safety and field parametrization dependence in the f(R) truncation
We study the dependence on field parametrization in the context of the Asymptotic Safety scenario. The investigation is performed with the f(R)-truncation fo...
Gabriele Gionti: Hamiltonian Analysis of Asymptotically Safe Gravity
Recent results based on renormalization group approaches to Quantum Gravity suggest that the Newton’s and Cosmological constants should be treated as dynamic...
Manuel Reichert: Effective universality in quantum gravity
We investigate the asymptotic safety scenario for a scalar-gravity system. This system contains two avatars of the dynamical Newton coupling, a gravitational...
Benjamin Knorr: Towards reconstructing the quantum effective action of gravity
I will present a new method to constrain the quantum effective action of gravity, inspired by recent results from causal dynamical triangulations (CDT). Afte...
Vedran Skrinjar: Safe and free instantons
We will discuss the instanton dynamics of asymptotically safe and free quantum field theories featuring respectively controllable ultraviolet and infrared fi...
Riccardo Martini: A curvature bound from gravitational catalysis
Gravitational catalysis expresses an interplay between the curvature of the spacetime and fluctuation-induced mass generation of quantum matter. I will show ...
Johannes Lumma: Quantum gravity fluctuations flatten the Planck-scale Higgs-potential
In this talk, we will investigate asymptotic safety of a toy model of a singlet-scalar extension of the Higgs sector including two real scalar fields under t...
Frank Saueressig: Asymptotically safe f(R)-gravity coupled to matter
We use the functional renormalization group equation for the effective average action to study the non-Gaussian renormalization group fixed points (NGFPs) ar...
Rodrigo León Ardón: The path integral of unimodular gravity
We compute the one-loop effective action in unimodular gravity, starting from two different classical formulations of the theory. We find that the effective ...