Out of Nowhere: The 'emergence' of spacetime in string theory
Abstract
This is a chapter of the planned monograph "Out of Nowhere: The Emergence of Spacetime in Quantum Theories of Gravity", co-authored by Nick Huggett and Christian Wüthrich and under contract with Oxford University Press. (More information at www.beyondspacetime.net.) This chapter analyses the nature and derivation of spacetime topology and geometry according to string theory.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- May 2020
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2005.10943
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2005.10943
- Bibcode:
- 2020arXiv200510943H
- Keywords:
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- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- Physics - History and Philosophy of Physics
- E-Print:
- 40 pages, 2 figures