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De Sitter space-time, essentially our own universe, is plagued by problems at the quantum level. Here we propose that Lorentzian de Sitter space-time is not fundamental but constitutes only an effective description of a more fundamental quantum gravity ground state. This cosmological ground state is a graph, appearing on large scales as a Riemannian manifold of constant negative curvature. We model the behaviour of matter near this equilibrium state as Brownian motion in the effective thermal environment of graph fluctuations, driven by a universal time parameter. We show how negative curvature dynamically induces the asymptotic emergence of relativistic coordinate time and of leading ballistic motion governed by the isometry group of an “effective Lorentzian manifold” of opposite, positive curvature, i.e. de Sitter space-time: free fall in positive curvature is asymptotically equivalent to the leading behaviour of Brownian motion in negative curvature. The local limit theorem for negative curvature implies that the large-scale spectral dimension of this “effective de Sitter space-time” is (3+1) independently of its microscopic topological dimension. In the effective description, the sub-leading component of asymptotic Brownian motion becomes Schrödinger quantum behavior on a 3D Euclidean manifold.
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Trugenberger, C.A. Effective de Sitter space, quantum behaviour and large-scale spectral dimension (3+1). J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 186 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2023)186
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