Invariant Renormalization-Group improvement

Abstract

Renormalization-Group (RG) improvement has been frequently applied to capture the effect of quantum corrections on cosmological and black-hole spacetimes. This work utilizes an algebraically complete set of curvature invariants to establish that: On the one hand, RG improvement at the level of the metric is coordinate-dependent. On the other hand, a newly proposed RG improvement at the level of curvature invariants is coordinate-independent. Spherically-symmetric and axially-symmetric black-hole spacetimes serve as physically relevant examples.