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Out of Nowhere: The 'emergence' of spacetime in string theory

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-09-08 v1 History and Philosophy of Physics

Abstract

This is a chapter of the planned monograph "Out of Nowhere: The Emergence of Spacetime in Quantum Theories of Gravity", co-authored by Nick Huggett and Christian W\"uthrich and under contract with Oxford University Press. (More information at www.beyondspacetime.net.) This chapter analyses the nature and derivation of spacetime topology and geometry according to string theory.

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@article{arxiv.2005.10943,
  title  = {Out of Nowhere: The 'emergence' of spacetime in string theory},
  author = {Nick Huggett and Christian Wüthrich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.10943},
  year   = {2020}
}

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40 pages, 2 figures