The Information Geometry of Space and Time

DOI10.1063/1.2149814zbMATH Open1446.62049arXivgr-qc/0508108OpenAlexW3100226894MaRDI QIDQ5118730FDOQ5118730

Authors: Ariel Caticha 

Publication date: 26 August 2020

Published in: AIP Conference Proceedings (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Is the geometry of space a macroscopic manifestation of an underlying microscopic statistical structure? Is geometrodynamics - the theory of gravity - derivable from general principles of inductive inference? Tentative answers are suggested by a model of geometrodynamics based on the statistical concepts of entropy, information geometry, and entropic dynamics. The model shows remarkable similarities with the 3+1 formulation of general relativity. For example, the dynamical degrees of freedom are those that specify the conformal geometry of space; there is a gauge symmetry under 3d diffeomorphisms; there is no reference to an external time; and the theory is time reversible. There is, in adition, a gauge symmetry under scale transformations. I conjecture that under a suitable choice of gauge one can recover the usual notion of a relativistic space-time.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0508108

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zbMATH Keywords

information geometrygeometrodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Information geometry (statistical aspects) (62B11)

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