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DOI10.1142/S0218271808014011zbMATH Open1173.83307arXiv0806.0397MaRDI QIDQ3630993FDOQ3630993

Authors: Jan Ambjørn, J. Jurkiewicz, Renate Loll 

Publication date: 5 June 2009

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

Abstract: We propose a theory of quantum gravity which formulates the quantum theory as a nonperturbative path integral, where each spacetime history appears with a weight given by the exponentiated Einstein-Hilbert action of the corresponding causal geometry. The path integral is diffeomorphism-invariant (only geometries appear) and background-independent. The theory can be investigated by computer simulations, which show that a de Sitter universe emerges on large scales. This emergence is of an entropic, self-organizing nature, with the weight of the Einstein-Hilbert action playing a minor role. Also the quantum fluctuations around this de Sitter universe can be studied quantitatively and remain small until one gets close to the Planck scale. The structures found to describe Planck-scale gravity are reminiscent of certain aspects of condensed-matter systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0397

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zbMATH Keywords

self-organizationquantum gravityde Sitter universenonperturbative

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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