Theorie-Palaver

Nov. 8, 2011 at 2:30 p.m. in Sozialraum der WA THEP

Upalaparna Banerjee

Federico Gasparotto

Pouria Mazloumi

Yong Xu

Asymptotic Safety and Lattice Quantum Gravity
Jack Laiho (University of Glasgow)


I present recent results from lattice quantum gravity, including evidence that an explicitly covariant formulation has a reasonable semi-classical limit. Our calculations show that the formulation has a running effective dimension that takes a value close to four at large distance scales. I will discuss the implications for Weinberg's asymptotic safety scenario.