Spacetime in String Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-10 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We give a brief overview of the nature of spacetime emerging from string theory. This is radically different from the familiar spacetime of Einstein's relativity. At a perturbative level, the spacetime metric appears as ``coupling constants" in a two dimensional quantum field theory. Nonperturbatively (with certain boundary conditions), spacetime is not fundamental but must be reconstructed from a holographic, dual theory.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0410049,
title = {Spacetime in String Theory},
author = {Gary T. Horowitz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0410049},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
20 pages; references added