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Gravitational fixed points and asymptotic safety from perturbation theory
Speaker(s): Max Niedermaier
Abstract: The fixed point structure of the renormalization flow in Einstein gravity and higher derivative gravity is investigated in terms of the background effective action. Using a covariant operator cutoff that keeps track of powerlike divergences and the transversal-traceless decomposition a construction ... read more
Date: 06/11/2009 - 2:00 pm
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