Emergent gravity from off-shell energy fixing
High Energy Physics - Theory
2020-09-14 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Off-shell processes do not preserve the Energy Momentum Tensor (EMT) in QFT. Fixing the EMT throughout off-shell processes, implies a graviton-like quantum field to emerge without dynamics. Its dynamics are generated through quantum corrections. This Fixed Off-Shell Energy Condition (FOSEC) implies the existence of a linear gravity-like theory, and in special cases the full Poincar\`e gauge theory. In this work it is shown that imposing the FOSEC in QFT implies the emergence of a viable quantum theory of gravity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1910.03599,
title = {Emergent gravity from off-shell energy fixing},
author = {Francisco J. de Anda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.03599},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
20 pages. v2: added detailed calculations, matches published version