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Higgs inflation and quantum gravity: an exact renormalisation group approach

Published 19 February 2016 , , Citation Ippocratis D. Saltas JCAP02(2016)048 DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/02/048

1475-7516/2016/02/048

Abstract

We use the Wilsonian functional Renormalisation Group (RG) to study quantum corrections for the Higgs inflationary action including the effect of gravitons, and analyse the leading-order quantum gravitational corrections to the Higgs' quartic coupling, as well as its non-minimal coupling to gravity and Newton's constant, at the inflationary regime and beyond. We explain how within this framework the effect of Higgs and graviton loops can be sufficiently suppressed during inflation, and we also place a bound on the corresponding value of the infrared RG cut-off scale during inflation. Finally, we briefly discuss the potential embedding of the model within the scenario of Asymptotic Safety, while all main equations are explicitly presented.

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10.1088/1475-7516/2016/02/048