Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

SIGMA 8 (2012), 027, 45 pages      arXiv:1110.0686      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2012.027
Contribution to the Special Issue “Loop Quantum Gravity and Cosmology”

Emergent Models for Gravity: an Overview of Microscopic Models

Lorenzo Sindoni
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Albert Einstein Institute, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14467 Golm, Germany

Received October 02, 2011, in final form May 04, 2012; Published online May 12, 2012

Abstract
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.

Key words: emergent gravity; quantum gravity.

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