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Stochastic mechanics (SM), as proposed by Edward Nelson and others in the 20th century, aims to reconstruct quantum mechanics (QM) from a more fundamental theory of classical point particles interacting with a classical-like ether, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-05 Maaneli Derakhshani

We develop a simple model to study classical fields on the background of a fluctuating spacetime volume. It is applied to formulate the stochastic Einstein equations with a perfect-fluid source. We investigate the particular case of a…

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We apply the open systems concept and the influence functional formalism introduced in Paper I to establish a stochastic theory of relativistic moving spinless particles in a quantum scalar field. The stochastic regime resting between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Philip R. Johnson , B. L. Hu

We discuss the averaging hypothesis tacitly assumed in standard cosmology. Our approach is implemented in a "3+1" formalism and invokes the coarse graining arguments, provided and supported by the real-space Renormalization Group (RG)…

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We derive a family of weighted scalar curvature monotonicity formulas for generalized Ricci flow, involving an auxiliary dilaton field evolving by a certain reaction-diffusion equation motivated by renormalization group flow. These scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-28 Jeffrey Streets

The AdS/CFT correspondence implies that the effective action of certain strongly coupled large $N$ gauge theories satisfy the Hamilton-Jacobi equation of 5d gravity. Using an analogy with the relativistic point particle, I construct a low…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Erik Verlinde

We study the Ricci flow for the Lorentzian Einstein-Hilbert action. We show that Einstein gravity emerges as a fixed point of the Einstein-Ricci flow equations and derive a renormalization group flow in Euclidean signature. By considering…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-05 Aditya Dhumuntarao

Whereas semiclassical gravity is based on the semiclassical Einstein equation with sources given by the expectation value of the stress-energy tensor of quantum fields, stochastic semiclassical gravity is based on the Einstein-Langevin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 B. L. Hu , E. Verdaguer

We construct a novel Wetterich-type functional renormalization group equation for gravity which encodes the gravitational degrees of freedom in terms of gauge-invariant fluctuation fields. Applying a linear-geometric approximation the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-30 Maximilian Demmel , Frank Saueressig , Omar Zanusso

This book gives an introduction to fundamental aspects of generalized Riemannian, complex, and K\"ahler geometry. This leads to an extension of the classical Einstein-Hilbert action, which yields natural extensions of Einstein and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Mario Garcia-Fernandez , Jeffrey Streets

We present a family of topological quantum gravity theories associated with the geometric theory of the Ricci flow on Riemannian manifolds. First we use BRST quantization to construct a "primitive" topological Lifshitz-type theory for only…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-05 Alexander Frenkel , Petr Horava , Stephen Randall

In this paper, we study the stochastic Hamiltonian flow in Wasserstein manifold, the probability density space equipped with $L^2$-Wasserstein metric tensor, via the Wong--Zakai approximation. We begin our investigation by showing that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Jianbo Cui , Shu Liu , Haomin Zhou

The symplectic quantization scheme proposed for matter scalar fields in the companion paper "Symplectic quantization I" is generalized here to the case of space-time quantum fluctuations. Symplectic quantization considers an explicit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-31 Giacomo Gradenigo

A covariant generalization of a non-relativistic stochastic quantum mechanics introduced by de la Pe\~na and Cetto is formulated. The analysis is done in space-time and avoids the use of a non-covariant time evolution parameter in order to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-04 Alfredo Gonzalez Lezcano , Alejandro Cabo Montes de Oca

We introduce the notions of `super-Ricci flows' and `Ricci flows' for time-dependent families of metric measure spaces $(X,d_t,m_t)_{t\in I}$. The former property is proven to be stable under suitable space-time versions of mGH-convergence.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-10 Karl-Theodor Sturm

We develop different synthetic notions of Ricci flow in the setting of time-dependent metric measure spaces based on ideas from optimal transport. They are formulated in terms of dynamic convexity and local concavity of the entropy along…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Matthias Erbar , Zhenhao Li , Timo Schultz

The stochastic quantization scheme proposed by Parisi and Wu in 1981 is known to have differences from conventional quantum field theory in higher orders. It has been suggested that some of these new features might give rise to a mechanism…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-07 A. K. Kapoor

The stochastic quantization method is applied to the recent proposal by Ho\v{r}ava for gravity. We show that in contrast to General Relativity, the Ho\v{r}ava's action, satisfying the detailed balance condition, has a stable,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-10 Fu-Wen Shu , Yong-Shi Wu

This paper proposes a theoretical framework for modeling and optimizing the bounded functions based on the Fourier series approximation and Ricci flow. Specifically, the initial manifold, $\mathcal{M}_0$ is approximated using Fourier series…

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