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arxiv: 1904.12819 · v1 · pith:OJRBJKS7new · submitted 2019-04-29 · ✦ hep-th

Complexity and Newton's Laws

classification ✦ hep-th
keywords complexityattractioncorrespondencegravitationalimprovedlawsnewtonsize-momentum
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In a recent note I argued that the holographic origin of gravitational attraction is the quantum mechanical tendency for operators to grow under time evolution. In a followup the claim was tested in the context of the SYK theory and its bulk dual---the theory of near-extremal black holes. In this paper I give an improved version of the size-momentum correspondence and show that Newton's laws of motion are a consequence. Operator size is closely related to complexity. Therefore one may say that gravitational attraction is a manifestation of the tendency for complexity to increase. The improved version of the size-momentum correspondence can be justified by the arguments of Lin, Maldacena, and Zhao constructing symmetry generators for the approximate symmetries of the SYK model.

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