Teaching
WS 25/26
Quantum gravity and the Renormalization Group
I am teaching Quantum gravity and the Renormalization Group. Tutorials are held by Dr. Fabian Wagner on Mondays from 14:15 to 15:45, Phil 12, nHS.
Exercise sheets:- Sheet 1 Sheet 1 with solutions
- Sheet 2 Sheet 2 with solutions Mathematica Notebook Intro to xAct
- Sheet 3 Sheet 3 with solutions Mathematica Notebook One-loop divergences
- Sheet 4
- Lecture notes from last year (see below)
- Lectures in Quantum Gravity by I. Basile, L. Buoninfante, F. Di Filippo, B. Knorr, A. Platania, A. Tokareva (SciPost Physics Lecture Notes 98 (2025), YT recordings)
- An Introduction to Covariant Quantum Gravity and Asymptotic Safety by R. Percacci (World Scientific, 2017)
- Quantum Gravity and the Functional Renormalization Group : The Road towards Asymptotic Safety by M. Reuter, F. Saueressig (Cambridge, 2019)
- Handbook of Quantum Gravity (Springer Nature, editors: C. Bambi, L. Modesto, I. Shapiro, available from within the university intranet, advanced and extremely broad material)
WS 24/25
Quantum gravity and the Renormalization Group
I am the tutor for Quantum gravity and the Renormalization Group, taught by Prof. Astrid Eichhorn. Tutorials are on Fridays from 14:15 to 15:45, Phil 12, kHS (group 1) and on Mondays from 14:15 to 15:45, Phil 12, nHS (group 2).
Exercise sheets can be found below:
- Sheet 1
- Sheet 2 Mathematica Notebook Intro to xAct
- Sheet 3 Mathematica Notebook One-loop divergences (updated 21/11)
- Sheet 4
- Sheet 5 Mathematica Notebook Conformal transformations
- Sheet 6 Mathematica Notebook Extra spin two
- Sheet 7
- Sheet 8
- Sheet 9
- Sheet 10
- Sheet 11