This analysis isolates a potential renormalization group skeleton for quantum gravity, suggesting a framework for UV completion.
Modern quantum-gravity programs based on the renormalization group (RG), in particular the functional RG (FRG) and Asymptotic Safety, rely on a finite set of essential couplings and on robust, cross-scheme signatures (universality). This work isolates a candidate RG "skeleton" by compressing three empirically fitted parameter clusters into closed, analytically tractable normal forms with hard invariants. Starting from the log-ansatz structures ln xi(u), ln phi0hat(u), and ln lambdahat(u) in a monotone flow variable u >= 0, we derive: A geometric sector with an exact half-residue and a pi-threshold:d/du ln xi(u) = -1/2 * (1 + (pi/6) * u)^(-1),together with a compact normalization key a0 approx 1 - gamma_E (Euler-Mascheroni constant). An amplitude/matter sector with rational weights and an exact cross-scale constraint, the "Mittermeier-12 bridge":a2 = 12 * b2. A two-threshold beta-function normal form with a single irrational amplitude (the plastic constant rho defined by rho^3 = rho + 1) and a sqrt(pi)-coupled threshold pair:beta_lambda(u) = - d/du ln lambdahat(u) = 15/16 - (rho * p)/(1 + pu) + (rho/7)/(1 + qu),with p = 15/(28*sqrt(pi)) and q = 15/28. The combined structure yields hard, falsifiable analytic signatures: strict monotonicity (no overshoot), a unique inflection point, and a universal UV approach law:Delta(u) = 15/16 - beta_lambda(u) ~ (11*rho/15) * u^(-1),while the best-fit parameters lock to the closed constants gamma_E, rho, pi and the rational "15-family" at sub-percent level. Scope: this is not a derivation of quantum gravity, but a minimally parametric and reproducible normal-form diagnostic that can be cross-tested against independent FRG truncations and scheme variations as a candidate universality-class skeleton for UV completion.
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Rainer Andreas Mittermeier (2026) studied this question.
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