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Agravity up to infinite energy
The self-interactions of the conformal mode of the graviton are controlled, in dimensionless gravity theories (agravity), by a coupling [Formula: see text] that is not asymptotically free. We show that, nevertheless, agravity can be a complete theory valid up to infinite energy. When [Formula: see t...
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author | Salvio, Alberto Strumia, Alessandro |
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description | The self-interactions of the conformal mode of the graviton are controlled, in dimensionless gravity theories (agravity), by a coupling [Formula: see text] that is not asymptotically free. We show that, nevertheless, agravity can be a complete theory valid up to infinite energy. When [Formula: see text] grows to large values, the conformal mode of the graviton decouples from the rest of the theory and does not hit any Landau pole provided that scalars are asymptotically conformally coupled and all other couplings approach fixed points. Then agravity can flow to conformal gravity at infinite energy. We identify scenarios where the Higgs mass does not receive unnaturally large physical corrections. We also show a useful equivalence between agravity and conformal gravity plus two extra conformally coupled scalars, and we give a simpler form for the renormalization group equations of dimensionless couplings as well as of massive parameters in the presence of the most general matter sector. |
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spelling | pubmed-65607042019-06-26 Agravity up to infinite energy Salvio, Alberto Strumia, Alessandro Eur Phys J C Part Fields Regular Article - Theoretical Physics The self-interactions of the conformal mode of the graviton are controlled, in dimensionless gravity theories (agravity), by a coupling [Formula: see text] that is not asymptotically free. We show that, nevertheless, agravity can be a complete theory valid up to infinite energy. When [Formula: see text] grows to large values, the conformal mode of the graviton decouples from the rest of the theory and does not hit any Landau pole provided that scalars are asymptotically conformally coupled and all other couplings approach fixed points. Then agravity can flow to conformal gravity at infinite energy. We identify scenarios where the Higgs mass does not receive unnaturally large physical corrections. We also show a useful equivalence between agravity and conformal gravity plus two extra conformally coupled scalars, and we give a simpler form for the renormalization group equations of dimensionless couplings as well as of massive parameters in the presence of the most general matter sector. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018-02-10 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6560704/ /pubmed/31258400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5588-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Funded by SCOAP3. |
spellingShingle | Regular Article - Theoretical Physics Salvio, Alberto Strumia, Alessandro Agravity up to infinite energy |
title | Agravity up to infinite energy |
title_full | Agravity up to infinite energy |
title_fullStr | Agravity up to infinite energy |
title_full_unstemmed | Agravity up to infinite energy |
title_short | Agravity up to infinite energy |
title_sort | agravity up to infinite energy |
topic | Regular Article - Theoretical Physics |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6560704/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31258400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5588-4 |
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