What drives the time evolution of the spacetime geometry?
From MaRDI portal
Abstract: I show that in a general, evolving spacetime, the rate of change of gravitational momentum is related to the difference between the number of degrees of freedom in the bulk and the boundary of a region. This expresses the gravitational field equation in the thermodynamic language which is the natural description, if gravity is an emergent phenomenon. In all static spacetimes, the number of degrees of freedom in the boundary is equal to the number of degrees of freedom in the bulk; i.e., these spacetimes maintain holographic equipartition. It is the departure from holographic equipartition that drives the time evolution of the spacetime. This result, which is equivalent to Einstein's equations, provides an elegant, holographic, description of spacetime dynamics.
Recommendations
- General relativity from a thermodynamic perspective
- Holographic equipartition from first order action
- Equipartition of microscopic degrees of freedom, space-time entropy and holography
- Holographic evolution with dynamical boundary gravity
- Generalized holographic equipartition for Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universes
Cites work
Cited in
(3)
This page was built for publication: What drives the time evolution of the spacetime geometry?
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5174222)
