Entropy density of spacetime from the zero point length

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.06.066MaRDI QIDQ315981zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dawood Kothawala, T. Padmanabhan

Publication date 26 September 2016

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3963

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: It is possible to obtain the gravitational field equations in a large class of theories from a thermodynamic variational principle which uses the gravitational heat density $mathcal{S}_g$ associated with null surfaces. This heat density is related to the discreteness of spacetime at Planck scale, $L_P^2=(Ghbar/c^3)$, which assigns $A_{perp}/L_P^2$ degrees of freedom to any area $A_{perp}$. On the other hand, it is also known that the surface term $Ksqrth$ in the gravitational action principle correctly reproduces the heat density of the null surfaces. We provide a link between these ideas by obtaining $mathcal{S}_g$, used in emergent gravity paradigm, from the surface term in the action in Einstein's gravity. This is done using the notion of a nonlocal qmetric -- introduced recently [arXiv:1307.5618, arXiv:1405.4967] -- which allows us to study the effects of zero-point-length of spacetime at the transition scale between quantum and classical gravity. Computing $Ksqrth$ for the qmetric in the appropriate limit directly reproduces the entropy density $mathcal{S}_g$ used in the emergent gravity paradigm.

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