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The turn of the millennium was a time of optimism about an approach to noncommutative geometry inspired by rich mathematical objects called `quantum groups' and its applications to quantum spacetime. This would model quantum gravity effects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-29 Shahn Majid

We present a new model of quantum gravity as a theory of random geometries given explicitly in terms of a multitrace matrix model. This is a generalization of the usual discretized random surfaces of 2D quantum gravity which works away from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Badis Ydri , Cherine Soudani , Ahlam Rouag

The quantization of Lorentzian or Euclidean 2+1 gravity by canonical methods is a well-studied problem. However, the constraints of 2+1 gravity are those of a topological field theory and therefore resemble very little those of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Thomas Thiemann

One of the obstacles to reconciling quantum theory with general relativity, is constructing a theory which is both consistent with observation, and and gives finite answers at high energy, so that the theory holds at arbitrarily short…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-10 Andrzej Grudka , Tim R. Morris , Jonathan Oppenheim , Andrea Russo , Muhammad Sajjad

We consider a model of Quantum Gravity phenomenology, based on the idea that space-time may have some unknown granular structure that respects the Lorentz symmetry. The proposal involves non-trivial couplings of curvature to matter fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-21 Y. Bonder

The preceding talks given at this conference have dealt mainly with general ideas for, main problems of and techniques for the task of quantizing gravity canonically. Since one of the major motivations to arrange for this meeting was that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Thiemann

10 D Euclidean quantum gravity is investigated numerically using the dynamical triangulation approach. It has been found that the behavior of the model is similar to that of the lower dimensional models. However, it turns out that there are…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-09-29 A. I. Veselov , M. A. Zubkov

We propose a method for demonstrating equivalences beyond the saddlepoint approximation between quantities in quantum gravity that are defined by the Euclidean path integral, without assumptions about holographic duality. The method…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-24 Vijay Balasubramanian , Tom Yildirim

The idea that spacetime geometry is built from quantum entanglement has been widely accepted in the last years. But how exactly the geometry is related with quantum states is still unclear. In this note, based on the idea of deep learning,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Xiao Dong , Ling Zhou

Despite the fact that quantum gravity is non-renormalisable, a consistent and mathematically rigorous construction of a perturbation series is possible. This is based on the use of the Batalin-Vilkovisky-Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin formalism…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-26 Romeo Brunetti , Klaus Fredenhagen , Kasia Rejzner

Quantum gravity is studied nonperturbatively in the case in which space has a boundary with finite area. A natural set of boundary conditions is studied in the Euclidean signature theory, in which the pullback of the curvature to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Lee Smolin

I propose a quantum gravity model in which geometric space emerges from random bits in a quantum phase transition driven by the combinatorial Ollivier-Ricci curvature and corresponding to the condensation of short cycles in random graphs.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Carlo A. Trugenberger

We consider a $SO(d)$ gauge theory in an Euclidean $d$-dimensional space-time, which is known to be renormalizable to all orders in perturbation theory for $2\le{d}\le4$. Then, with the help of a space-time representation of the gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. F. Sobreiro , V. J. Vasquez Otoya

In recent years, the import of quantum information techniques in quantum gravity opened new perspectives in the study of the microscopic structure of spacetime. We contribute to such a program by establishing a precise correspondence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-20 Eugenia Colafranceschi , Daniele Oriti

We provide a mechanism by which, from a background independent model with no quantum mechanics, quantum theory arises in the same limit in which spatial properties appear. Starting with an arbitrary abstract graph as the microscopic model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Fotini Markopoulou , Lee Smolin

It is expected that a quantum theory of gravity will radically alter our current notion of spacetime geometry. However, contrary to what was commonly assumed for many decades, quantum gravity effects could manifest in scales much larger…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Eduardo A. B. Oliveira , Andre G. S. Landulfo

We show that 2+1-dimensional Euclidean quantum gravity is equivalent, under some mild topological assumptions, to a Gaussian fermionic system. In particular, for manifolds topologically equivalent to $\Sigma_g\times\RrR$ with $\Sigma_g$ a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Bonacina , Maurizio Martellini , Mario Rasetti

"Quantum Topology" deals with the general quantum theory as the theory of the functional quantum space; space time and energy momentum forms form a connected manifold; a functional quantum space on the quantum level. The general quantum…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Diaa A Ahmed

The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) fundamentally encodes the geometry and topology of quantum states in both Hermitian and non-Hermitian regimes. While adiabatic perturbation theory links its real part (quantum metric) and imaginary part…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Ze-Hao Huang , Hai-Tao Ding , Li-Jun Lang

In a recent series of publications we have started to investigate possible points of contact between the canonical (CQG) and the asymptotically safe (ASQG) approach to quantum gravity, despite the fact that the CQG approach is exclusively…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-31 Renata Ferrero , Thomas Thiemann