An asymptotically safe solution to the U(1) triviality problem

We explore whether quantum gravity effects within the asymptotic safety paradigm can provide a predictive ultraviolet completion for Abelian gauge theories. We evaluate the effect of quantum gravity fluctuations on the running couplings in the gauge sector and discover an asymptotically safe fixed p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nicolai Christiansen, Astrid Eichhorn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-07-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269317303210