| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The thermodynamic and holographic nature of gravity should be a clue to identifying the fundamental dynamical variables of quantum gravity. In order to explain such nature, we regarded the dynamics of gravity as a relativistic nonequilibrium relaxation process, and investigated nonequilibrium statistical thermodynamics from various aspects. In particular, we successfully constructed "thermodynamics of shape" in a generally covariant way and developed quantum field theories on curved spacetimes. Also, as a constructive definition of quantum gravity based on membrane dynamics, we advocated a novel matrix model that generates the random volumes of membranes. Furthermore, we introduced the distance between configurations in Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations, which generate relaxation processes in a computer. This is the first example of the emergence of geometry from nonequilibrium relaxation processes.
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