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We consider classical Euclidean gravity solutions with a boundary. The boundary contains a non-contractible circle. These solutions can be interpreted as computing the trace of a density matrix in the full quantum gravity theory, in the…

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We obtain an hybrid expression for the heat-kernel, and from that the density of the free energy, for a minimally coupled scalar field in a Schwarzschild geometry at finite temperature. This gives us the zero-point energy density as a…

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The area entropy $A/4$ and the related Hawking temperature in the presence of event horizons are rederived, for de Sitter and black hole topologies, as a consequence of a tunneling of the wave functional associated to the classical coupled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 A. Casher , F. Englert

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

Entropy is a fundamental concept from Thermodynamics and it can be used to study models on context of Creation Cold Dark Matter (CCDM). From conditions on the first ($\dot{S}\geq0$)\footnote{Throughout the present work we will use dots to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-02 R. Valentim , J. F. Jesus

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

For the the quintic quasitopological action which has no well-defined variational principle, we introduced a surface term that for a spacetime with flat boundaries make the action well-defined. Moreover, we investigated the numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-23 A. Bazrafshan , A. R. Olamaei

The fact that the equations of motion for matter remain invariant when a constant is added to the Lagrangian suggests postulating that the field equations of gravity should also respect this symmetry. This principle implies that: (1) the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-16 T. Padmanabhan

Starting from the action function, we have derived a theoretical background that leads to the quantization of gravity and the deduction of a correlation between the gravitational and the inertial masses, which depends on the kinetic…

General Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 Fran De Aquino

We show that the metric (line element) is the first geometrical object to be associated to a discrete (quantum) structure of the spacetime without necessity of black hole-entropy-area arguments, in sharp contrast with other attempts in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-16 Diego Julio Cirilo-Lombardo , Thiago Prudencio

Previous work has demonstrated that the gravitational field equations in all Lanczos-Lovelock models imply a thermodynamic identity TdS=dE+PdV (where the variations are interpreted as changes due to virtual displacement along the affine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-16 Sumanta Chakraborty , Krishnamohan Parattu , T. Padmanabhan

In Einstein's gravity, the entropy of horizons is proportional to their area. Several arguments given in the literature suggest that, in this context, both area and entropy should be quantized with an equally spaced spectrum for large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-23 Dawood Kothawala , T. Padmanabhan , Sudipta Sarkar

We quantize a scalar field at finite temperature T in the background of a classical black hole, adopting 't Hooft's ``brick wall'' model with generic mixed boundary conditions at the brick wall boundary. We first focus on the exactly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Milanesi , Mihail Mintchev

In this work we investigate the thermodynamic properties of conformal gravity in four dimensions. We compute the \emph{area(or entropy) functional} relation for this black hole. We consider both de-Sitter (dS) and anti de-Sitter (AdS)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-02 Parthapratim Pradhan

We propose a new holographic program of gravity in which we introduce a surface stress tensor. Our proposal differs from Verlinde's in several aspects. First, we use an open or a closed screen, a temperature is not necessary but a surface…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-29 Wei Gu , Miao Li , Rong-Xin Miao

We first study some aspects of a physically inspired kind of a noncommutative spherically symmetric spacetime based on the Gaussian-smeared mass distribution for a solar system scale. This leads to the elimination of a singularity appeared…

General Physics · Physics 2016-05-12 S. Hamid Mehdipour

Starting from an analytical expression for the Helmholtz free energy we calculate the thermal corrections to the Casimir energy-density and entropy within nearby ideal parallel plates in the vacuum of a massless scalar field. Our framework…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-23 V. B. Bezerra , H. R. Christiansen , M. S. Cunha , C. R. Muniz , M. O. Tahim

We derive a unified expansion law for our universe from the first law of thermodynamics on the apparent horizon, where entropic evolution depicts the emergence of cosmic space. The derivation advances a general form for degrees of freedom…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-22 Hassan Basari V. T. , P. B. Krishna , Titus K. Mathew

We present a novel derivation of Einstein equations from the balance between Clausius entropy crossing the boundary of a local causal diamond and entanglement entropy associated with its horizon. Comparing this derivation with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Ana Alonso-Serrano , Marek Liška

Quantum thermodynamics has emerged as a central field for understanding how energy conversion processes occur in microscopic systems. In these systems, effects such as coherence, entanglement, and non-Markovianity play key roles. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 J. M. Z. Choquehuanca