Published February 1, 2016 | Version v1
Journal article

Higgs inflation and quantum gravity: an exact renormalisation group approach

  • 1. Faculty of Sciences, Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences, Campo Grande, PT1749-016 Lisboa (Portugal)

Description

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

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/02/048

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Journal Volume
2016
Journal Issue
02
Journal Page Range
p. 048
ISSN
1475-7516