Starobinsky inflation rules out two of three non-Gaussian fixed points in asymptotically safe scalar-tensor theories, identifying viable RG trajectories from the remaining fixed point.
Search of scaling solutions in scalar-tensor gravity
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We write new functional renormalization group equations for a scalar nonminimally coupled to gravity. Thanks to the choice of the parametrization and of the gauge fixing they are simpler than older equations and avoid some of the difficulties that were previously present. In three dimensions these equations admit, at least for sufficiently small fields, a solution that may be interpreted as a gravitationally dressed Wilson-Fisher fixed point. We also find for any dimension d>2 two analytic scaling solutions which we study for d=3 and d=4. One of them corresponds to the fixed point of the Einstein-Hilbert truncation, the others involve a nonvanishing minimal coupling.
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UV completeness in scalar-tensor gravity restricts Yukawa fifth-force parameters α and λ to a finite wedge whose complement is ruled out, with part of the excluded domain below current experimental bounds.
In asymptotically safe gravity, dimension-five couplings of ultralight scalar dark matter to gauge field strengths vanish and are not generated perturbatively.
Proper-time FRG applied to gravity-coupled O(N) scalars largely reproduces scaling solutions and critical properties found with the effective average action, with some quantitative differences at finite and large N depending on improved schemes.
Review surveying progress toward realistic asymptotically safe quantum gravity with quantum scale symmetry and observational implications.
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Starobinsky-inflation in asymptotically safe shift-symmetric scalar-tensor theory
Starobinsky inflation rules out two of three non-Gaussian fixed points in asymptotically safe scalar-tensor theories, identifying viable RG trajectories from the remaining fixed point.
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Fifth-Force Constraints from UV-Complete Scalar-Tensor Gravity
UV completeness in scalar-tensor gravity restricts Yukawa fifth-force parameters α and λ to a finite wedge whose complement is ruled out, with part of the excluded domain below current experimental bounds.
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Towards theory constraints on ultralight dark matter from quantum gravity
In asymptotically safe gravity, dimension-five couplings of ultralight scalar dark matter to gauge field strengths vanish and are not generated perturbatively.
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Proper-time functional renormalization in $O(N)$ scalar models coupled to gravity
Proper-time FRG applied to gravity-coupled O(N) scalars largely reproduces scaling solutions and critical properties found with the effective average action, with some quantitative differences at finite and large N depending on improved schemes.
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Asymptotically safe quantum gravity and its phenomenology -- a review
Review surveying progress toward realistic asymptotically safe quantum gravity with quantum scale symmetry and observational implications.