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For generic field theories at finite temperature, a power-law falloff of correlation functions of conserved currents at long times is a prediction of non-linear hydrodynamics. We demonstrate, through a one-loop computation in Einstein…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-17 Simon Caron-Huot , Omid Saremi

A gauge theory with an indefinite metric without negative probabilities is given by extending quantum mechanics, where a general metric is introduced, and the invariance under the general linear transformation is imposed on the space of…

General Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Kimihide Nishimura

Lanczos-Lovelock theories of gravity, in its first order version, are studied on asymptotically locally anti de Sitter spaces. It is shown that thermodynamics satisfies the standard behavior and an expression for entropy is found for this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Rodrigo Aros

In this paper, we present a new theoretical scenario in which both dynamical Dirac fermions and Einstein's gravity with a positive cosmological constant and torsion emerge via a spontaneous symmetry breaking in a topological phase. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-01 Giandomenico Palumbo

In the Standard Model, the electroweak symmetry is broken by a complex, $SU(2)$-doublet Higgs field and the vacuum manifold $SU(2)\times U(1)/U(1)$ has the topology of a 3-sphere. We remark that there exist theoretical alternatives that are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-31 Ben Gripaios , Oscar Randal-Williams

I argue that the field equations of any theory of gravity which is diffeomorphism invariant must be expressible as a thermodynamic identity, TdS=dE around any event in the spacetime. This fact can be demonstrated explicitly (and rather…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-09 T. Padmanabhan

Production of gravitational vacuum defects and their contribution to the energy density of our Universe are discussed. These topological microstructures (defects) could be produced in the result of creation of the Universe from "nothing"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-03 V. Burdyuzha , G. Vereshkov , J. Pacheco

Recently, Ho$\breve{r}$ava proposed a non-relativistic renormalizable theory of gravity which is essentially a field theoretic model for a UV complete theory of gravity and reduces to Einstein gravity with a non-vanishing cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 Ritabrata biswas , Subenoy Chakraborty

The Gravity from Entropy (GfE) action posits that gravity that is fundamentally given by the information encoded in the interplay between matter and geometry. The GfE Lagrangian is given by the Geometric Quantum Relative Entropy (GQRE)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Ginestra Bianconi

We formulate a theory of classical electrodynamics where the only admissible electric charges are topological singularities in the electromagnetic field, and charge quantization is accounted by the Chern theorem, such that Dirac magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Bruno Golik , Dario Jukić , Hrvoje Buljan

We compute the relative entropy between the vacuum and a coherent state for a massive scalar field in de Sitter spacetime, using Tomita-Takesaki modular theory and the Araki-Uhlmann formula for the relative entropy. Embedding de Sitter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-22 Markus Fröb , Albert Much , Kyriakos Papadopoulos

We establish a framework to construct spherically symmetric and static solutions in $f(R)$ gravity coupled with nonlinear electromagnetic fields. We present two new specific solutions and discuss the energy conditions. We calculate some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Yongben Shi , Rong-Jia Yang

There is a deep link between gravity and thermodynamics; in a precise way gravity can be derived from entanglement entropy in conformal field theories. However, this depends crucially on properties of horizons, and asymptotic symmetries of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-30 Ian Nagle

We study the thermodynamics of the electroweak theory at a finite lepton number density. The phase diagram of the theory is calculated by relating the full 4-dimensional theory to a 3-dimensional effective theory which has been previously…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Gynther

A classical general relativistic theory possessing magnetic currents, as well electric ones and admitting massive photons was built up. As the geometric basis serves a space with Weylian non-metricity and torsion. The theory is coordinate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-12-27 Mark Israelit

Quantum Electrodynamics can be formulated as the theory of an antisymmetric tensor gauge field. In this formulation the topological current of this field appears as an additional source for the electromagnetic field. The topological charge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 E. C. Marino

We investigate theories in which gravity arises as a consequence of entropy. We distinguish between two approaches to this idea: holographic gravity, in which Einstein's equation arises from keeping entropy stationary in equilibrium under…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-23 Sean M. Carroll , Grant N. Remmen

Global topological defects described by real scalar field in (3,1) dimensions coupled to gravity are analyzed. We consider a class of scalar potentials with explicit dependence with distance, evading Derrick's theorem and leading to defects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Bazeia , C. Furtado , A. R. Gomes

We argue that the Standard Model is accompanied by a new pseudo-scalar degree of freedom, $\eta_{\rm w}$-meson, which cancels the topological susceptibility of the electroweak vacuum and gets its mass from this effect. The prediction is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-12 Gia Dvali , Archil Kobakhidze , Otari Sakhelashvili

We propose an expression for the entropy density associated with the Local Causal Horizons in any diffeomorphism invariant theory of gravity. If the black-hole entropy of the theory satisfies the physical process version of the first law of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-26 Arif Mohd , Sudipta Sarkar