General relativity from p-adic strings

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2022.V26.N5.A4MaRDI QIDQ6312117arXivFDO

Authors An Huang, Bogdan Stoica, Shing-Tung Yau

Publication date 7 January 2019

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/ATMP.2022.V26.N5.A4

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Complex vector fields, holomorphic foliations, (mathbb{C})-actions (32M25) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Loop spaces (55P35) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Bosonic systems in quantum theory (81V73) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

arXiv classification

hep-thmath-phmath.MPmath.NT

Abstract: For an arbitrary prime number $p$, we propose an action for bosonic $p$-adic strings in curved target spacetime, and show that the vacuum Einstein equations of the target are a consequence of worldsheet scaling symmetry of the quantum $p$-adic strings, similar to the ordinary bosonic strings case. It turns out that certain $p$-adic automorphic forms are the plane wave modes of the bosonic fields on $p$-adic strings, and that the regularized normalization of these modes on the $p$-adic worldsheet presents peculiar features which reduce part of the computations to familiar setups in quantum field theory, while also exhibiting some new features that make loop diagrams much simpler. Assuming a certain product relation, we also observe that the adelic spectrum of the bosonic string corresponds to the nontrivial zeros of the Riemann Zeta function.

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