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Non-local Field Theory from Matrix Models
Andrzej Banburski, Jaron Lanier, Vasudev Shyam +2
We show that a class of matrix theories can be understood as an extension of quantum field theory which has non-local interactions. This reformulation is based on the Wigner-Weyl t…
A Cubic Matrix Action for the Standard Model and Beyond
Yigit Yargic, Jaron Lanier, Lee Smolin +1
We propose a new framework for matrix theories that are equivalent to field theories on a toroidal spacetime. The correspondence is accomplished via infinite Toeplitz matrices whos…
The Autodidactic Universe
Stephon Alexander, William J. Cunningham, Jaron Lanier +4
We present an approach to cosmology in which the Universe learns its own physical laws. It does so by exploring a landscape of possible laws, which we express as a certain class of…
Quantum reference frames and triality
Lee Smolin
In a background independent theory without boundary, physical observables may be defined with respect to dynamical reference systems. However, I argue here that there may be a symm…
Holographic relations in loop quantum gravity
Lee Smolin
It is shown that a relation between entropy and minimal area holds in loop quantum gravity, reminiscent of the Ryu-Takayanagi relation.
Dynamics of the cosmological and Newton's constant
Lee Smolin
A modification of general relativity is presented in which Newton's constant and the cosmological constant become a conjugate pair of dynamical variables.
Extending dualities to trialities deepens the foundations of dynamics
Lee Smolin
Dualities are often supposed to be foundational, but they may come into conflict with background independence, because a hidden fixed structures is needed to define the duality tra…
Twistor relative locality
Lee Smolin
We present a version of relative locality based on the geometry of twistor space. This can also be thought of as a new kind of deformation of twistor theory based on the constructi…
Noisy soccer balls
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, Laurent Freidel, Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman +1
In her Comment arXiv:1202.4066 [hep-th] Hossenfelder proposes a generalization of the results we reported in Phys. Rev. D84 (2011) 087702 and argues that thermal fluctuations intro…
A Shape Dynamical Approach to Holographic Renormalization
Henrique Gomes, Sean Gryb, Tim Koslowski +2
We provide a bottom-up argument to derive some known results from holographic renormalization using the classical bulk-bulk equivalence of General Relativity and Shape Dynamics, a…
Gravitational origin of the weak interaction's chirality
Stephon Alexander, Antonino Marciano, Lee Smolin
We present a new unification of the electro-weak and gravitational interactions based on the joining the weak SU(2) gauge fields with the left handed part of the space-time connect…
Unification of the state with the dynamical law
Lee Smolin
We address the question of why particular laws were selected for the universe, by proposing a mechanism for laws to evolve. Normally in physical theories, timeless laws act on time…
Relative locality: A deepening of the relativity principle
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, Laurent Freidel, Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman +1
We describe a recently introduced principle of relative locality which we propose governs a regime of quantum gravitational phenomena accessible to experimental investigation. This…
Relative locality and the soccer ball problem
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, Laurent Freidel, Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman +1
We consider the behavior of macroscopic bodies within the framework of relative locality, which is a recent proposal for Planck scale modifications of the relativistic dynamics of…
Gamma ray burst delay times probe the geometry of momentum space
Laurent Freidel, Lee Smolin
We study the application of the recently proposed framework of relative locality to the problem of energy dependent delays of arrival times of photons that are produced simultaneou…
An action for higher spin gauge theory in four dimensions
Nima Doroud, Lee Smolin
An action principle is presented for Vasiliev's Bosonic higher spin gauge theory in four spacetime dimensions. The action is of the form of a broken topological field theory, and a…
The principle of relative locality
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, Laurent Freidel, Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman +1
We propose a deepening of the relativity principle according to which the invariant arena for non-quantum physics is a phase space rather than spacetime. Descriptions of particles…
Unimodular loop quantum gravity and the problems of time
Lee Smolin
We develop the quantization of unimodular gravity in the Plebanski and Ashtekar formulations and show that the quantum effective action defined by a formal path integral is unimodu…
The quantization of unimodular gravity and the cosmological constant problem
Lee Smolin
A quantization of unimodular gravity is described, which results in a quantum effective action which is also unimodular, ie a function of a metric with fixed determinant. A consequ…
Disordered Locality as an Explanation for the Dark Energy
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Lee Smolin
We discuss a novel explanation of the dark energy as a manifestation of macroscopic non-locality coming from quantum gravity, as proposed by Markopoulou. It has been previously sug…
The weak anthropic principle and the landscape of string theory
George F R Ellis, Lee Smolin
We note that there is an exception to the general arguments that no falsifiable predictions can be made, on the basis of of presently available data, by applying the weak anthropic…
Could deformed special relativity naturally arise from the semiclassical limit of quantum gravity?
Lee Smolin
A argument is described for how deformed or doubly special relativity may arise in the semiclassical limit of a quantum theory of gravity. We consider a generic quantum theory of g…
Particle Identifications from Symmetries of Braided Ribbon Network Invariants
Sundance Bilson-Thompson, Jonathan Hackett, Lou Kauffman +1
We develop the idea that the particles of the standard model may arise from excitations of quantum geometry. A previously proposed topological model of preons is developed so that…
Matrix universality of gauge and gravitational dynamics
Lee Smolin
A simple cubic matrix model is presented, which has truncations that, it is argued, lead at the classical level to a variety of theories of gauge fields and gravity. These include…