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Asymptotically safe cosmology - a status report
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Asymptotic Safety, based on a non-Gaussian fixed point of the gravitational renormalization group flow, provides an elegant mechanism for completing the gravitational force at sub-Planckian scales. At high energies the fixed point controls the scaling of couplings such that unphysical divergences are absent while the emergence of classical low-energy physics is linked to a crossover between two renormalization group fixed points. These features make Asymptotic Safety an attractive framework for cosmological model building. The resulting scenarios may naturally give rise to a quantum gravity driven inflationary phase in the very early universe and an almost scale-free fluctuation spectrum. Moreover, effective descriptions arising from an renormalization group improvement permit a direct comparison to cosmological observations as, e.g. Planck data.<br />Comment: Invited review for the special issue "Testing quantum gravity with cosmology" to appear in Compte Rendus Physique A
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1702.04137
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crhy.2017.02.002