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PIRSA:19050011

The Functional Renormalization Group Equation as an Approach to the Continuum Limit of Tensor Models for Quantum Gravity

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          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:19050011,
            doi = {10.48660/19050011},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/19050011},
            author = {Koslowski, Tim},
            keywords = {Quantum Gravity},
            language = {en},
            title = {The Functional Renormalization Group Equation as an Approach to   the Continuum Limit of Tensor Models for Quantum Gravity},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2019},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:19050011 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/pirsa/19050011}}
          }
          

Tim Koslowski Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt

Talk numberPIRSA:19050011
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Abstract

Tensor Models provide one of the calculationally simplest approaches to defining a partition function for random discrete geometries. The continuum limit of these discrete models then provides a background-independent construction of a partition function of continuum geometry, which are candadates for quantum gravity. The blue-print for this approach is provided by the matrix model approach to two-dimensional quantum gravity. The past ten years have seen a lot of progress using (un)colored tensor models to describe state sums if discrete geometries in more than two dimensions. However, so far one has not yet been able to find a continuum limit of these models that corresponds geometries with more than two continuum dimensions. This problem can be studied systematically using exact renormalization group techniques. In this talk I will report on joint work with Astrid Eichhorn, Antonio Perreira, Joseph Ben Geloun, Daniele Oriti, Johannes Lumma, Alicia Castro and Victor Mu\~noz in this direction. In a separate part of the talk I will explain that the renormalization group is not only a tool to help investigating the continuum limit, but that it in fact also provides a stand-alone approach to quantum gravity. In particular, I will show how scaling relations follow from cylidrical consistency relations.