The renormalization of fluctuating branes, the Galileon and asymptotic safety

We consider the renormalization of d-dimensional hypersurfaces (branes) embedded in flat (d + 1)-dimensional space. We parametrize the truncated effective action in terms of geometric invariants built from the extrinsic and intrinsic curvatures. We study the renormalization-group running of the couplings and explore the fixed-point structure. We find evidence for an ultraviolet fixed point similar to the one underlying the asymptotic-safety scenario of gravity. We also examine whether the structure of the Galileon theory, which can be reproduced in the nonrelativistic limit, is preserved at the quantum level. © 2013 SISSA, Trieste, Italy.