Quantum gravity as an emergent phenomenon

DOI10.1142/S0218271819440036zbMATH Open1433.81009arXiv1903.11066WikidataQ127827858 ScholiaQ127827858MaRDI QIDQ4960313FDOQ4960313

Authors: Shounak De, Tejinder P. Singh, Abhinav Varma 

Publication date: 15 April 2020

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

Abstract: There ought to exist a reformulation of quantum theory which does not depend on classical time. To achieve such a reformulation, we introduce the concept of an atom of space-time-matter (STM). An STM atom is a classical non-commutative geometry, based on an asymmetric metric, and sourced by a closed string. Different such atoms interact via entanglement. The statistical thermodynamics of a large number of such atoms gives rise, at equilibrium, to a theory of quantum gravity. Far from equilibrium, where statistical fluctuations are large, the emergent theory reduces to classical general relativity. In this theory, classical black holes are far-from-equilibrium low entropy states, and their Hawking evaporation represents an attempt to return to the (maximum entropy) equilibrium quantum gravitational state.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11066

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zbMATH Keywords

noncommutative geometryquantum gravityspontaneous collapsetrace dynamicstorsion gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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