Emergent Metric Space-Time from Matrix Theory

Abstract

The IKKT matrix model yields an emergent space-time. We further develop these ideas and give a proposal for an emergent metric. Based on previous numerical studies of this model, we provide evidence that the emergent space-time is continuous and infinite in extent, both in space and in time, and that the metric is spatially flat. The time evolution describes the transition from a string-theoretic emergent phase to a phase in which the $SO(9)$ symmetry of the model is spontaneously broken to $SO(6)\times SO(3)$, with three dimensions of space expanding, becoming classical and at later times evolving like in a radiation-dominated universe, and the remaining six dimensions of space stabilized at the string scale. We speculate on how this analysis can be extended to yield an early universe cosmology which, in addition to the above-mentioned properties, also leads to a roughly scale-invariant spectrum of cosmological fluctuations and gravitational waves.

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