Quantum modified gravity at low energy in the Ricci flow of quantum spacetime

DOI10.1007/S10773-023-05341-9zbMATH Open1528.83051arXiv2210.06082OpenAlexW4366985492WikidataQ125799809 ScholiaQ125799809MaRDI QIDQ6174262FDOQ6174262

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Publication date: 14 July 2023

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

Abstract: Quantum treatment of physical reference frame leads to the Ricci flow of quantum spacetime, which is a quite rigid framework to quantum and renormalization effect of gravity. The theory has a low characteristic energy scale described by a unique constant: the critical density of the universe. At low energy long distance (cosmic or galactic) scale, the theory modifies Einstein's gravity which naturally gives rise to a cosmological constant as a counter term of the Ricci flow at leading order and an effective scale dependent Einstein-Hilbert action. In the weak and static gravity limit, the framework gives rise to a transition trend away from Newtonian gravity and similar to the MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) around the characteristic scale. When local curvature is large, Newtonian gravity is recovered. When local curvature is low enough to be comparable with the asymptotic background curvature corresponding to the characteristic energy scale, the transition trend produces the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation. For intermediate general curvature around the background curvature, the interpolating Lagrangian function yields a similar transition trend to the observed radial acceleration relation of galaxies. When the baryonic matter density is much lower than the critical density at the outskirt of a galaxy, there may be a universal "acceleration floor" corresponding to the acceleration expansion of the universe, which differs from MOND at its deep-MOND limit. The critical acceleration constant $a_0$ introduced in MOND is related to the low characteristic energy scale of the theory. The cosmological constant gives a universal leading order contribution to it and the flow effect gives the next order scale dependent contribution, which equivalently induces the "cold dark matter" to the theory. $a_0$ is consistent with galaxian data when the "dark matter" is about 5 times the baryonic matter.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.06082

zbMATH Keywords

MONDquantum gravityRicci flowdark energydark mattermodified Newtonian dynamicsacceleration discrepancy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Formal methods and deformations in algebraic geometry (14D15) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Renormalization of holomorphic dynamical systems (37F25) Ricci flows (53E20) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

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• Three-manifolds with positive Ricci curvature
• The entropy formula for the Ricci flow and its geometric applications
• Ricci flow with surgery on three-manifolds
• Finite extinction time for the solutions to the Ricci flow on certain three-manifolds
• The cosmological constant problem and re-interpretation of time

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