Background-independent composite gravity

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ABEFBDMaRDI QIDQ5163374zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Austin Batz, J. Erlich, Luke Mrini

Publication date 3 November 2021

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06541

zbMATH Keywords

background independencecomposite gravityemergent gravityinduced gravityquantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We explore a background-independent theory of composite gravity. The vacuum expectation value of the composite metric satisfies Einstein's equations (with corrections) as a consistency condition, and selects the vacuum spacetime. A gravitational interaction then emerges in vacuum correlation functions. The action remains diffeomorphism invariant even as perturbation theory is organized about the dynamically selected vacuum spacetime. We discuss the role of nondynamical clock and rod fields in the analysis, the identification of physical observables, and the generalization to other theories including the standard model.

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