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The curvature-squared model of gravity, in the affine form proposed by Weyl and Yang, is deduced from a topological action in 4D. More specifically, we start from the Pontrjagin (or Euler) invariant. Using the BRST antifield formalism with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Eckehard W. Mielke

In this work we derive general quantum phenomenological equations of gravitational dynamics and analyse its features. The derivation uses the formalism developed in thermodynamics of spacetime and introduces low energy quantum gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Ana Alonso-Serrano , Marek Liška

It is possible to provide a physical interpretation for the field equations of gravity based on a thermodynamical perspective. The virtual degrees of freedom associated with the horizons perceived by the local Rindler observers, play a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 T. Padmanabhan

Here we develop the connection between thermodynamics, entanglement, and gravity. By attributing thermodynamics to timeslices of a causal diamond, we show that the Clausius relation $T\Delta S_{\text{rev}}=Q$, where $\Delta S_{\text{rev}}$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-17 Andrew Svesko

We derive the Einstein tensor from the Fisher information metric that is defined by the probability distribution of a statistical mechanical system. We find that the tensor naturally contains essential information of the energy-momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-30 Hiroaki Matsueda

Three decades ago, Ted Jacobson surprised us with a very appealing approach to classical gravity. According to him, the gravitational field equations are the consequence of the first law of thermodynamics applied to a Rindler observer.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 Jhan N. Martinez , Jose F. Rodriguez-Ruiz , Yeinzon Rodriguez

One of the striking features of general relativity is that the Einstein equation is implied by the Clausius relation imposed on a small patch of locally constructed causal horizon. Extension of this thermodynamic derivation of the field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-17 Ramit Dey , Stefano Liberati , Arif Mohd

This paper starts from a toy model for inflation in a class of modified theories of gravity in the metric formalism. Instead of the standard procedure -- assuming a non-linear Lagrangian $f(R)$ in the Jordan frame -- we start from a simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 C. D. Peralta , S. E. Jorás

Expanding the black hole thermodynamics from the horizon to achronal Cauchy hypersurface, the general relation between the Einstein equation and thermodynamics is established. Starting from trivial entropy that is generalized by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-14 Jun Chen

The black hole area theorem suggests that classical general relativity is the thermodynamic limit of a quantum statistics. The degrees of freedom of the statistical theory cannot be the spacetime metric. We argue that the statistical theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-18 T. P. Singh

We suggest a mechanism for the emergence of classical dynamical spacetime from an underlying quantum gravitational system. This is an example of a more general process, which we name micro-equilibration, and which can be thought of as local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-29 Veronika E. Hubeny , Massimiliano Rota

A surprising, gravity related Verlinde-conjecture, that generated immense interest, asserts that gravity is an emergent entropic force. We provided a classical proof of the assertion in [doi.org/j.physa.2018.03.019]. Here, we classically…

General Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 A. Plastino , M. C. Rocca

It is an old idea to realize Einstein's equations as a thermodynamical equation of state. Since then, there has been new conjectures to understand gravity from another point of view. In this way we can accept that the gravitational field is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-16 Everton M. C. Abreu , Jorge Ananias Neto , Albert C. R. Mendes , Daniel O. Souza

It has recently been shown that the Einstein equation can be derived by demanding a non-equilibrium entropy balance law dS = dQ/T + dS_i hold for all local acceleration horizons through each point in spacetime. The entropy change dS is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Christopher Eling

Thermodynamics of local causal horizons have been shown to encode the information necessary to derive the equations governing the gravitational dynamics. We have previously shown that, in the presence of matter, this derivation further…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Ana Alonso-Serrano , Marek Liška

It is well known that, for a wide class of spacetimes with horizons, Einstein equations near the horizon can be written as a thermodynamic identity. It is also known that the Einstein tensor acquires a highly symmetric form near static, as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-30 Dawood Kothawala , T. Padmanabhan

In this talk, I present a theory of quantum gravity beyond Einstein. The theory is established based on spinnic and scaling gauge symmetries by treating the gravitational force on the same footing as the electroweak and strong forces. A…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-04 Yue-Liang Wu

In arXiv:gr-qc/9504004 it was shown that the Einstein equation can be derived as a local constitutive equation for an equilibrium spacetime thermodynamics. More recently, in the attempt to extend the same approach to the case of $f(R)$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 G. Chirco , S. Liberati

In a recent publication in this journal, Erik Verlinde attempts to show that gravity should be viewed not as a fundamental force, but rather as an emergent thermodynamic phenomenon arising from an unspecified microscopic theory via…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-13 Jonathan J. Roveto , Gerardo Munoz

A calculation by Jacobson [1] strongly implies that the field equations which describe gravity are emergent phenomena. In this paper, the method is extended to the case of a non-commutative spacetime. By making use of a non-commutative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-21 Simon Moolman