EINSTEIN GRAVITY AS AN EMERGENT PHENOMENON?

DOI10.1142/S0218271801001591zbMATH Open1155.83332arXivgr-qc/0106002OpenAlexW2138968861WikidataQ59619751 ScholiaQ59619751MaRDI QIDQ3376516FDOQ3376516

C. Barceló, Matt Visser, S. Liberati

Publication date: 23 March 2006

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this essay we marshal evidence suggesting that Einstein gravity may be an emergent phenomenon, one that is not ``fundamental but rather is an almost automatic low-energy long-distance consequence of a wide class of theories. Specifically, the emergence of a curved spacetime ``effective Lorentzian geometry is a common generic result of linearizing a classical scalar field theory around some non-trivial background. This explains why so many different ``analog models of general relativity have recently been developed based on condensed matter physics; there is something more fundamental going on. Upon quantizing the linearized fluctuations around this background geometry, the one-loop effective action is guaranteed to contain a term proportional to the Einstein--Hilbert action of general relativity, suggesting that while classical physics is responsible for generating an ``effective geometry, quantum physics can be argued to induce an ``effective dynamics. This physical picture suggests that Einstein gravity is an emergent low-energy long-distance phenomenon that is insensitive to the details of the high-energy short-distance physics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0106002

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) General relativity (83C99)

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