Published March 7, 2017 | Version v1
Journal article

Emergent gravity in spaces of constant curvature

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Miami,1320 Campo Sano Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33146 (United States)

Description

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 number of terms, and depends on intrinsic geometric invariants of the submanifold and extrinsic invariants of the embedding of the submanifold. This is the second of a pair of articles in which we try to develop a theory of emergent gravity arising from the embedding of a submanifold into an ambient space equipped with a quantum field theory. Our theoretical method requires a generalization of a formula due to by Hermann Weyl. While the first paper discussed the framework in Euclidean (Minkowski) space, here we discuss how this framework generalizes to spaces of constant sectional curvature. We focus primarily on anti de Sitter space. We then discuss how such a theory can give rise to a cosmological constant and Planck mass that are within reasonable bounds of the experimental values.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2017)033; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/19267

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2017
Journal Issue
03
Journal Page Range
p. 33
ISSN
1029-8479

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Notes
PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP03(2017)033; ARXIV:1701.04449; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:19267
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)