Fundamental Aspects of Asymptotic Safety in Quantum Gravity

• Main Author: Slade, Zoë H. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Gravitation.; Cosmology.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

After an extensive introduction to the asymptotic safety approach to quantum gravity, this thesis explains recent key advances reported in four influential papers. Firstly, two exact solutions to the reconstruction problem (how to recover a bare action from the effective average action) are provided...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Solutions to the reconstruction problem
• Background independence in a background dependent RG
• Asymptotic solutions in asymptotic safety
• Outlook.