Asymptotic Safety


The following pages are meant as an informal introduction to asymptotic safety and as a guide to the literature.

 

The Asymptotic Safety FAQs a collection of questions and answers that should give you some idea of what asymptotic safety is about.

 

Asymptotic Safety bibliography a relatively complete annotated bibliography on the subject, in roughly chronological order, including (separately) a list of papers on closely related arguments.


The AS seminars

 

bmsss.jpg

Benedetti, Machado and Saueressig have given an example where terms that correspond to nonrenormalizable divergences in perturbation theory are included in the truncation, and the fixed point still exists. 

 

Here they are working to extend their results. (PI, November 2009)



External links


The Quantum Theory of Fields: Effective or Fundamental? A talk by Steven Weinberg at CERN, July 7, 2009

 

The workshop Asymptotic Safety - 30 Years Later was held at the Perimeter Institute on November 5 – 8, 2009. Full video coverage is available here.


Gravity at high energy A talk by Steven Weinberg at Strings 2010

 

An article in New Scientist


Thank you

 

Last update april 10, 2012