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We construct a model of quantum gravity in which dimension, topology and geometry of spacetime are dynamical. The microscopic degree of freedom is a real rectangular matrix whose rows label internal flavours, and columns label spatial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-14 Sung-Sik Lee

We present an exposition on the geometrization of the electromagnetic force. We show that, in noncommutative (NC) spacetime, there always exists a coordinate transformation to locally eliminate the electromagnetic force, which is precisely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-30 Hyun Seok Yang

Recently, in a series of papers, we established the existence and found a general solution for the simultaneously rotating and twisting locally rotationally symmetric spacetimes in general relativity, which can model inhomogeneous and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-25 Sayuri Singh , Amare Abebe , Rituparno Goswami , Sunil D. Maharaj

In any dimension $D$, the Euclidean Einstein-Hilbert action, which describes gravity in the absence of matter, can be discretized over random discrete spaces obtained by gluing families of polytopes together in all possible ways. In the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Luca Lionni

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

Is the geometry of space a macroscopic manifestation of an underlying microscopic statistical structure? Is geometrodynamics - the theory of gravity - derivable from general principles of inductive inference? Tentative answers are suggested…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Ariel Caticha

Spacetime emergence refers to the notion that classical spacetime "emerges" as an approximate macroscopic entity from a non-spatio-temporal structure present in a more complete theory of interacting fundamental constituents. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Chiu Man Ho , Thomas W. Kephart , Djordje Minic , Y. Jack Ng

This article introduces a new approach to discrete curvature based on the concept of effective resistances. We propose a curvature on the nodes and links of a graph and present the evidence for their interpretation as a curvature. Notably,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Karel Devriendt , Renaud Lambiotte

General equations of the unified field theory, obtained using the curved and torsional space-time, are presented. They contain only independent geometrical parameters (metric and connections) of the metric-affine space, and describe the…

General Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Alex Karpelson

We use graphical field gradients in an adynamical, background independent fashion to propose a new approach to quantum gravity and unification. Our proposed reconciliation of general relativity and quantum field theory is based on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-01 W. M. Stuckey , Michael Silberstein , Timothy McDevitt

We analyze two models of random geometries~: planar hyper-cubic random surfaces and four dimensional simplicial quantum gravity. We show for the hyper-cubic random surface model that a geometrical constraint does not change the critical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Sven Bilke

We describe a theory amalgamating quantum theory and general relativity through the identification of a continuous 4-dimensional spacetime arena constructed from the substructures of a generalised multi-dimensional form for proper time. In…

General Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 David J. Jackson

Assuming that Quantum Mechanics is universal and that it can be applied over all scales, then the Universe is allowed to be in a quantum superposition of states, where each of them can correspond to a different space-time geometry. How can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-27 José Luis Gaona-Reyes , Lucía Menéndez-Pidal , Mir Faizal , Matteo Carlesso

Starting from the working hypothesis that both physics and the corresponding mathematics and in particular geometry have to be described by means of discrete concepts on the Planck-scale, one of the many problems one has to face in this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-11 Manfred Requardt , Saeed Rastgoo

Quantum graphity is a background independent model for emergent geometry, in which space is represented as a complete graph. The high-energy pre-geometric starting point of the model is usually considered to be the complete graph, however…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-10 Samuel A. Wilkinson , Andrew D. Greentree

Planck-scale quantum spacetime undergoes probabilistic local curvature fluctuations whose distributions cannot explicitly depend on position otherwise vacuum's small-scale quantum structure would fail to be statistically homogeneous. Since…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-28 Christopher D. Burton

A generalization of the random geometric graph (RGG) model is proposed by considering a set of points uniformly and independently distributed on a rectangle of unit area instead of on a unit square [0,1]^2. The topological properties of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-20 Ernesto Estrada , Matthew Sheerin

In physical theories where the energy (action) is localized near a submanifold of a constant curvature space, there is a universal expression for the energy (or the action). We derive a multipole expansion for the energy that has a finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-10 Orlando Alvarez , Matthew Haddad

We will highlight that despite there being various approaches to quantum gravity, there are universal approach-independent features of quantum gravity. The geometry of spacetime becomes an emergent structure, which emerges from some purely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-04 Mir Faizal

We investigate dimensional constraints arising from representation theory when abstract graph edges possess internal degrees of freedom but lack geometric properties. We prove that such internal degrees of freedom can only encode…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 João P. da Cruz