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The Fermi-point scenario of emergent gravity has the following consequences: gravity emerges together with fermionic and bosonic matter; emergent fermionic matter consists of massless Weyl fermions; emergent bosonic matter consists of gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. E. Volovik

Gravity is derived from an entropic action coupling matter fields with geometry. The fundamental idea is to relate the metric of Lorentzian spacetime to a quantum operator, playing the role of an renormalizable effective density matrix and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-20 Ginestra Bianconi

It is very likely that the quantum description of spacetime is quite different from what we perceive at large scales, $l\gg (G\hbar/c^3)^{1/2}$. The long wave length description of spacetime, based on Einstein's equations, is similar to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Padmanabhan

According to some authors, gravity might be an emergent phenomenon in a fundamentally flat space-time. In this case the speed of light in the vacuum would not coincide exactly with the basic parameter "c" entering Lorentz transformations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-19 M. Consoli , A. Pluchino

Since the advent of quantum mechanics we have mainly been concerned with its predictions from the perspective of an external observer. This is in strong contrast to the theory of general relativity, where the physics is governed by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-17 Dries Sels , Michiel Wouters

The absence of unique time evolution in Einstein's spacetime description of gravity leads to the hitherto unresolved `problem of time' in quantum gravity. Shape Dynamics is an objectively equivalent representation of gravity that trades…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Julian Barbour , Tim Koslowski , Flavio Mercati

In this work we consider the emergent origin of gravity in the framework of Hamilton-Randers theory, a theoretical framework for emergent quantum mechanics. After presenting the essential ingredients of the theory, a derivation of the weak…

General Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Ricardo Gallego Torromé

A number of recent proposals for a quantum theory of gravity are based on the idea that spacetime geometry and gravity are derivative concepts and only apply at an approximate level. There are two fundamental challenges to any such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-23 Alioscia Hamma , Fotini Markopoulou

I describe several conceptual aspects of a particular paradigm which treats the field equations of gravity as emergent. These aspects are related to the features of classical gravitational theories which defy explanation within the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 T. Padmanabhan

The remarkable connections between gravity and thermodynamics seem to imply that gravity is not fundamental but emergent, and in particular, as Verlinde suggested, gravity is probably an entropic force. In this paper, we will argue that the…

General Physics · Physics 2011-09-21 Shan Gao

It was conjectured thirty years ago that gravity could arise from the entropic re-arrangement of information. In this paper, we offer a set of microscopic quantum models which realize this idea in detail. In particular, we suggest a simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-13 Daniel Carney , Manthos Karydas , Thilo Scharnhorst , Roshni Singh , Jacob M. Taylor

The Einstein-Hilbert action (and thus the dynamics of gravity) can be obtained by combining the principle of equivalence, special relativity and quantum theory in the Rindler frame and postulating that the horizon area must be proportional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Padmanabhan

Riemann's principle "force equals geometry" provided the basis for Einstein's General Relativity - the geometric theory of gravitation. In this paper, we follow this principle to derive the dynamics for any static, conservative force. The…

General Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 Y. Friedman , T. Scarr , J. Steiner

A possible way out of the conundrum of quantum gravity is the proposal that general relativity (GR) is not a fundamental theory but emerges from an underlying microscopic description. Despite recent interest in the emergent gravity program…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Niels S. Linnemann , Manus R. Visser

In the bottom-up approach of emergent gravity we attempt to find symplectic gauge fields emerging from Euclidean Schwarzschild instanton, which is studied as electromagnetism defined on the symplectic space $(M,\omega)$. Geometrical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-20 Sumanto Chanda , Partha Guha , Raju Roychowdhury

In this paper, we first generalize the formulation of entropic gravity to (n+1)-dimensional spacetime. Then, we propose an entropic origin for Gauss-Bonnet gravity and more general Lovelock gravity in arbitrary dimensions. As a result, we…

General Physics · Physics 2013-04-16 A. Sheykhi , H. Moradpour , N. Riazi

Darboux theorem in symplectic geometry is the crux of emergent gravity in which the gravitational metric emerges from a noncommutative U(1)-theory. Topological T-duality, on the other hand, is a relation between two a priori different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-08 Daniel Bermudez , Raju Roychowdhury

The Einsteinian Theory of Gravitation ("General Theory of Relativity") is founded essentially; on the reception that the geometrical properties of the 4-dimensional space-time continuum are defined from the matter in it. Contrary to this,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Mattes

Emergent gravity can be applied to a large $N$ matrix model by considering the vacuum of a noncommutative (NC) Coulomb branch that satisfies the Heisenberg algebra. Due to the fact that IR fluctuations in the NC Coulomb branch always pair…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-02 Jungjai Lee , Hyun Seok Yang

In the model of quantum gravity proposed in JHEP 2020, 70 (2020), dynamical spacetime arises as a collective phenomenon of underlying quantum matter. Without a preferred decomposition of the Hilbert space, the signature, topology and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-24 Sung-Sik Lee