Constraints on emergent gravity

DOI10.1142/S0218271809015941zbMATH Open1183.83042arXiv0904.0453WikidataQ59510246 ScholiaQ59510246MaRDI QIDQ5306286FDOQ5306286

Authors: Alejandro Jenkins 

Publication date: 8 April 2010

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

Abstract: In this essay we review the central difficulty in formulating a viable quantum field theory in which gravity is emergent at low energies, rather than mediated by a fundamental gauge field. The Weinberg-Witten theorem forbids spin 2 massless modes from carrying Lorentz covariant stress-energy. In General Relativity the stress-energy is not covariant because it violates a gauge symmetry, but a gravitational theory without fundamental spin 2 gauge invariance must either lack a stress-energy operator or have a non-relativistic graviton. The latter option is incompatible with the principle of equivalence, though such theories are not necessarily ruled out at low energies.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0453

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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