Wednesday, February 29, 2012

1111.1743 (F. Saueressig et al.)

Higher Derivative Gravity from the Universal Renormalization Group
Machine
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F. Saueressig, K. Groh, S. Rechenberger, O. Zanusso
We study the renormalization group flow of higher derivative gravity, utilizing the functional renormalization group equation for the average action. Employing a recently proposed algorithm, termed the universal renormalization group machine, for solving the flow equation, all the universal features of the one-loop beta-functions are recovered. While the universal part of the beta-functions admits two fixed points, we explicitly show that the existence of one of them depends on the choice of regularization scheme, indicating that it is most probably unphysical.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1743

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