RT Journal Article
T1 Toward a Mechanism for the Emergence of Gravity
A1 Barceló, Carlos
A1 Carballo-Rubio, Raúl
A1 Garay Elizondo, Luis Javier
A1 García Moreno, Gerardo
AB One of the main problems that emergent-gravity approaches face is explaining how a system that does not contain gauge symmetries ab initio might develop them effectively in some regime. We review a mechanism introduced by some of the authors for the emergence of gauge symmetries in [JHEP 10 (2016) 084] and discuss how it works for interacting Lorentz-invariant vector field theories as a warm-up exercise for the more convoluted problem of gravity. Then, we apply this mechanism to the emergence of linear diffeomorphisms for the most general Lorentz-invariant linear theory of a two-index symmetric tensor field, which constitutes a generalization of the Fierz–Pauli theory describing linearized gravity. Finally we discuss two results, the well-known Weinberg–Witten theorem and a more recent theorem by Marolf, that are often invoked as no-go theorems for emergent gravity. Our analysis illustrates that, although these results pinpoint some of the particularities of gravity with respect to other gauge theories, they do not constitute an impediment for the emergent gravity program if gauge symmetries (diffeomorphisms) are emergent in the sense discussed in this paper.
PB MPDI
SN 20763417
YR 2021
FD 2021-09-21
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/4739
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/4739
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
NO Junta de Andalucía
NO Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa
DS Docta Complutense
RD 23 jun 2025