Emergent Models for Gravity: an Overview of Microscopic Models

• Published in: Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
• Date: 2012
• Main Author: Sindoni, L.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Інститут математики НАН України 2012
• Online Access: https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/148419
• Journal Title: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Cite this: Emergent Models for Gravity: an Overview of Microscopic Models / L. Sindoni // Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications. — 2012. — Т. 8. — Бібліогр.: 246 назв. — англ.

We give a critical overview of various attempts to describe gravity as an emergent phenomenon, starting from examples of condensed matter physics, to arrive to more sophisticated pregeometric models. The common line of thought is to view the graviton as a composite particle/collective mode. However,...