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arXiv 1702.06136gr-qchep-th
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时空原子与宇宙学常数

The atoms of spacetime and the cosmological constant

Thanu Padmanabhan

摘要:

我描述了一种将经典引力与时空的量子微观结构联系起来的方法。在这种方法中,场方程产生于最大化物质态密度加上几何形状。前者是确定使用零曲面的热力学。后者产生于时空中存在一个零点长度,它将一个内部自由度与时空中的每一个事件联系起来,以一个常范数的波动向量的形式。态密度以及由此产生的引力场方程,在物质拉格朗日量中加入一个常数时保持不变,这是物质扇区的对称性。宇宙学常数作为一个积分常数出现,并使永恒的观察者可以获得的宇宙信息量有限。宇宙学常数与宇宙信息之间的关系使我们能够在宇宙学的背景下,从量子时空的信息量中确定宇宙学常数的数值。

英文摘要:

I describe an approach which relates classical gravity to the quantum microstructure of spacetime. In this approach, the field equations arise from maximizing the density of states of the matter plus geometry. The former is identified using the thermodynamics of null surfaces. The latter arises from the existence of a zero-point length in the spacetime which associates an internal degree of freedom with each event in the spacetime, in the form of a fluctuating vector of constant norm. The density of states, as well as the resulting gravitational field equations, remain invariant when a constant is added to the matter Lagrangian, which is a symmetry of the matter sector. The cosmological constant arises as an integration constant and renders the amount of cosmic information accessible to an eternal observer finite. The relation between the cosmological constant and the cosmic information allows us to determine the numerical value of cosmological constant from the information content of the quantum spacetime, within the context of cosmology.

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