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Einstein's Equations from Varying Complexity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-01-24 v1

Abstract

A recent proposal equates the circuit complexity of a quantum gravity state with the gravitational action of a certain patch of spacetime. Since Einstein's equations follow from varying the action, it should be possible to derive them by varying complexity. I present such a derivation for vacuum solutions of pure Einstein gravity in three-dimensional asymptotically anti-de Sitter space. The argument relies on known facts about holography and on properties of Tensor Network Renormalization, an algorithm for coarse-graining (and optimizing) tensor networks.

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@article{arxiv.1706.00965,
  title  = {Einstein's Equations from Varying Complexity},
  author = {Bartlomiej Czech},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.00965},
  year   = {2018}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures

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