18–19 Dec 2019
Centre for Particle Theory, Durham
Europe/London timezone

A novel approach to perturbatively renormalizable quantum gravity

18 Dec 2019, 15:15
30m
CM107 (Department of Mathematical Sciences)

CM107

Department of Mathematical Sciences

Speaker

Mr Alex Mitchell-Lister (University of Southampton)

Description

In this talk we review current research into a novel approach to creating a perturbatively renormalizable theory of quantum gravity. This is based on a treatment of Einstein's GR under the exact renormalization group leading to the discovery of operators with negative scaling dimension which resolve the issue of irrelevant operators in interacting gravity. The restriction of these operators to those that are diffeomorphism invariant and the consequences of this are also discussed.

Primary author

Mr Alex Mitchell-Lister (University of Southampton)

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