Return to search

The emergence of gravitational spaces

A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Master of Science. 01 September 2014. / In this thesis I explore the evidence for whether gravity is an emergent phenomenon. I provide a review of black hole thermodynamics and
demonstrate how it provides evidence that gravity is an emergent phe-
nomenon. In addition I provide a review of Jacobson's calculation which
shows how the Einstein eld equations can be interpreted as a thermo-
dynamic equation of state. I then use Jacobson's work and the Seiberg-
Witten map to derive a new gravitational equation of state which shows
what gravity on a non-commutative manifold would look like.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/16920
Date06 February 2015
CreatorsMoolman, Simon
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Formatapplication/pdf

Page generated in 0.0025 seconds