Посилання: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.
Підтримка:This paper is a contribution to the Special Issue “Loop Quantum Gravity and Cosmology”. The full collection is available at http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/LQGC.html.
I would like to thank A. Campoleoni and F. Caravelli for discussions, and S. Finazzi, F. Girelli, S. Liberati and D. Oriti for the intense collaboration on the subject. I would also like to thank T. Gherghetta, S. Hossenfelder, H. Lin and an anonymous referee for comments, constructive criticism and concrete suggestions for improvements.
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, we will describe many different ways in which this idea is realized in practice.