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Assume that in a fundamental theory of quantum gravity spatial information is encoded through elements x_i of an associative, complex and possibly noncommutative algebra in which the involution acts as x^*_i = x_i. Without further…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kempf

In information theory, the link between continuous information and discrete information is established through well-known sampling theorems. Sampling theory explains, for example, how frequency-filtered music signals are reconstructible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Achim Kempf

We propose a fundamental duality between the geometric properties of spacetime and the informational content of quantum fields. Specifically, we establish that the curvature of spacetime is directly related to the entanglement entropy of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 Florian Neukart

Indefinite causal structure is generically present in theories of quantum gravity admitting a path integral formulation. We show that summing over causal structures eliminates ultraviolet divergences of matter QFT and resolves spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-03 Ding Jia

The properties of strongly gravitating systems suggest that field theory overcounts the states of a system. Reducing the number of degrees of freedom, without abandoning the notion of effective field theory, may be achieved through a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-10 Nikolaos Tetradis

Information geometry is used to quantify the amount of information integration within multiple terminals of a causal dynamical system. Integrated information quantifies how much information is lost when a system is split into parts and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Shun-ichi Amari , Naotsugu Tsuchiya , Masafumi Oizumi

In this note we highlight some connections of UMAP to the basic principles of Information Geometry. Originally, UMAP was derived from Category Theory observations. However, we posit that it also has a natural geometric interpretation.

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Alexander Kolpakov , Aidan Rocke

To unite quantum theory and general relativity, in a new access it is shown that from a theory of an abstract quantum information - called Protyposis - the theory of general relativity can be deduced by means of few and physically good…

General Physics · Physics 2009-04-14 Thomas Görnitz

We set an upper bound on the gravitational cutoff in theories with exact quantum numbers of large N periodicity, such as Z_N discrete symmetries. The bound stems from black hole physics. It is similar to the bound appearing in theories with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gia Dvali , Michele Redi , Sergey Sibiryakov , Arkady Vainshtein

Recent progress in quantum field theory and quantum gravity relies on mixed boundary conditions involving both normal and tangential derivatives of the quantized field. In particular, the occurrence of tangential derivatives in the boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Giampiero Esposito

Geometrical methods in quantum information are very promising for both providing technical tools and intuition into difficult control or optimization problems. Moreover, they are of fundamental importance in connecting pure geometrical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Daniele Iannotti , Alioscia Hamma

In this survey, we describe the fundamental differential-geometric structures of information manifolds, state the fundamental theorem of information geometry, and illustrate some use cases of these information manifolds in information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Frank Nielsen

We address the framework of analysing quantum metrology in the information-theoretic picture. Firstly we show how to extract the maximum amount of information in general via suitable state initialization of the probes at the beginning and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Yi Peng , Heng Fan

Quantum information theory is the study of the achievable limits of information processing within quantum mechanics. Many different types of information can be accommodated within quantum mechanics, including classical information, coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Nielsen

We conjecture an intrinsic UV cutoff for the validity of the effective field theory with a large number of species coupled to gravity. In four dimensions such a UV cutoff takes the form $\Lambda=\sqrt{\lambda/ N}M_p$ for $N$ scalar fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Qing-Guo Huang

The search for a mathematical foundation for the path integral of Euclidean quantum gravity calls for the construction of random geometry on the spacetime manifold. Following developments in physics on the two-dimensional theory, random…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-20 Timothy Budd

Within the general setting of algebraic quantum field theory, a new approach to the analysis of the physical state space of a theory is presented; it covers theories with long range forces, such as quantum electrodynamics. Making use of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-15 Detlev Buchholz

The various entropy bounds that exist in the literature suggest that spacetime is fundamentally discrete, and hint at an underlying relationship between geometry and "information". The foundation of this relationship is yet to be uncovered,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Rideout , S. Zohren

We shall outline some results regarding the infrared catastrophes of quantum electrodynamics and perturbative quantum gravity and their implications for information loss in quantum processes involving electrically or gravitationally charged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-13 Gordon W. Semenoff

Unifying quantum theory and gravity remains a fundamental challenge in physics. While most existing literature focuses on the ultraviolet (UV) modifications of quantum theory due to gravity, this work shows that generic infrared (IR)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-27 Mytraya Gattu , S. Shankaranarayanan