1. Introduction
After the formulation of Einstein’s theory of General Relativity (GR) by utilizing 4D spacetime, Kaluza discovered in 1919 a potential unification of gravitational and electromagnetic fields in 5D spacetime. To handle the fifth dimension, Klein posited that it can be compactified. Nonetheless, these attempts and their expansions to higher dimensions have not culminated in testable predictions nor the competence to elucidate observations yet. As an alternative to compactification, Gogberashvili, Randall, and Sundrum demonstrated in 1999 that the weak force of gravity could be explained by using a model of 4D spacetime that is embedded in a negatively curved and large fifth dimension; nevertheless, the model demanded massive gravitons [
1,
2,
3].
On the other hand, to achieve an effective action for the quantum corrections, several theories were formulated based on the modification of curvature terms and Lagrangian fields. Such alterations appear to be inevitable, which included high-order curvature terms and non-minimally coupled scalar fields [
4,
5,
6]. Moreover, although quantum anomalies require a non-local Lagrangian, one of the major differences between GR and quantum field theory (QFT) is that GR is background independent; consequently, it requires fewer inputs whereas QFT involves a background metric that in turn impacts its predictions [
7].
Recently, the Planck legacy 2018 (PL18) release has confirmed the existence of an enhanced lensing amplitude in the cosmic microwave background power spectra, which prefers a positively curved early Universe with a confidence level higher than 99% [
8,
9]. Based on this sign of early curved background and its feasible evolution over conformal time, it is obvious that background-independent theories, such as GR, do not consider the background curvature evolution and regard celestial objects in the early Universe with a preferred curvature on equal footing with their counterparts in the present Universe with a spatially flat background; this shortcoming can be the cause of the dark matter problem.
A desirable gravity theory should consider metrics of both the celestial object and the background, and reduce to GR in a flat spacetime background. Moreover, to incorporate gravity to quantum fields, the geometrization of quantum mechanics approach rather than quantizing gravity in favour of De Broglie and Penrose assessments is considered, which can maintain the equivalence principle and count for the impact of gravity on quantum fields while the latter lacks these features [
10]. Besides, gravity appears to be an emergent field because it cancels out in a free-fall and cannot be shielded from its influence.
This study aims to formulate interaction field equations that consider the background curvature, signified as the 4D conformal bulk curvature, and its impact on celestial objects that are regarded as 4D relativistic cloud-worlds. In addition, it aims to incorporate the influence of the gravity, indicated by the local curvature of the 4D conformal bulk, on quantum fields that are regarded as propagating 4D relativistic quantum clouds. This paper is organized as follows. Sections 2 presents the mathematical derivations of the interaction field equations and
Section 3 presents their visualizations while
Section 4 incorporates the quantum interactions.
Section 5 reproduces quantum electrodynamics. Finally,
Section 6 summarizes the conclusions and suggests directions for future works.
2. Gravitational and Electromagnetic Interaction Field Equations
The PL18 release prefers a positively curved early Universe, that is, is a sign of a primordial background curvature or a curved conformal bulk where the evolution of the conformal curvature is associated with the Universe scalar factor expansion (
Appendix B). To consider the bulk curvature and its evolution over the conformal time, a modulus of spacetime deformation,
in terms of energy density, is introduced based on the theory of elasticity [
11]. The modulus can be expressed in terms of the resistance of the bulk to the localized curvature that is induced by celestial objects by using Einstein field equations or in terms of the field strength of the bulk by using the Lagrangian formulation of the energy density existing in the bulk as a manifestation of the vacuum energy density as
where the stress is signified by the stress-energy tensor
of trace
while the strain is signified by the Ricci curvature tensor
as the change in the curvature divided by the existing curvature
given as the scalar of the bulk curvature denoting the background or conformal curvature.
is the field strength tensor and
is vacuum permeability. By incorporating the bulk influence, the Einstein–Hilbert action can be extended to
where
denotes the Ricci scalar curvature representing the localized curvature induced into the bulk by a celestial object that is regarded as a 4D relativistic cloud-world of metric
and Lagrangian density
whereas
denotes the scalar curvature of the 4D bulk of metric
and Lagrangian density
as its internal stresses and momenta reflecting its curvature.
As the bulk modulus,
, is constant with regards to the cloud-world action under the constant vacuum energy density condition, and by considering the expansion of the bulk over conformal time owing to the expansion of the Universe and its implication on the field strength of the bulk, a dual-action concerning the conservation of energy on global (bulk) and local (cloud-world) scales can be introduced as follows
This action implies eight-dimensional degrees of freedom as
where
is a dimensional-hierarchy factor. The conformal bulk metric,
, and cloud-world metric,
, are associated by Weyl’s conformal transformation as
, where
is a conformal function [
12]. The global-local action should hold for any variation as follows
By utilizing Jacobi's formula,
[
13], the variation is
By considering the boundary term of the cloud-world:
, the variation in the Ricci curvature tensor,
, can be expressed in terms of the covariant derivative of the difference between two Levi-Civita connections, the Palatini identity:
, where this variation with respect to the inverse metric,
, can be obtained by using the metric compatibility of the covariant derivative:
[
13], as
. Therefore, the cloud-world’s boundary term as a total derivative for any tensor density can be transformed based on Stokes’ theorem as follows
where the bulk scalar curvature,
, is left outside the integral transformation as it only acts as a scalar. In addition, a second approach can be applied to the bulk boundary term:
where
resembles the Ricci flow in a normalized form reflecting the conformal evolution in the extrinsic curvature of the bulk that can be expressed as a function based on Weyl’s transformation as
.
By using the first approach of boundary terms’ transformations given in Equation (6), the transformed boundary action,
, is
where
and
are the traces of the cloud-world and the bulk extrinsic curvatures,
and
are the extrinsic traces of the Lagrangian density on the cloud-world and the bulk boundaries,
and
are the determinants of their induced metrics respectively, and
equals 1 when the normal
is a spacelike entity and equals -1 when it is a timelike entity.
is the 4D Lorentz force density. The boundary action should hold for any variation and by considering the transformed cloud-world’s boundary term, the variation is
where
. By utilizing Jacobi's formula for the determinant differentiation; thus,
and by utilizing the variation in the metric times the inverse metric,
as
, where
is the number of dimensions; thus, the boundary term is
here
resembles the Ricci flow in a normalized form reflecting the conformal distortion in the boundary over conformal time, which can be expressed as a function according to Weyl’s conformal transformation [
14] while the term
. Consequently, the boundary term is
, where
is the conformally transformed induced metric on the cloud-world boundary. The same is applied to bulk and Lagrangian boundary terms. The variation in the whole action with renaming the dummy indices is
where the outcome of the global part of the action has resembled an extended electromagnetic stress-energy tensor as
denoting energy density exists in the bulk as the vacuum energy density in addition to the 4D Lorentz force density on the bulk boundary.
By applying the principle of stationary action for the Equation (11) while choosing 𝜖 as a time-like entity, the general form of the field equations can be obtained based on the first approach of boundary term transformations as follows
These interaction field equations can be interpreted as indicating that the induced curvature, , of the cloud-world over the background (conformal) curvature, , of the bulk equals the ratio of the imposed energy density of the cloud-world and its flux, , to the vacuum energy density of the bulk and its flux, , throughout the expanding/contracting Universe. The field equations feature the following:
is an extended conformal stress-energy tensor that is defined by including the energy density and flux of the cloud-world as and the electromagnetic energy flux from its boundary over conformal time as .
The background conformal curvature term reflects the cosmological ‘constant’ (parameter). The form in Equation (14) is utilized.
The boundary term given by the extrinsic curvatures of the cloud-world, , and the bulk, , is only significant at high energies when the difference between the induced and background curvatures is significant.
The field equations include four contributions that come from the cloud-world’s intrinsic and extrinsic curvatures and the bulk’s intrinsic and extrinsic curvatures. The field equations can be expressed in different forms depending on which contribution is required to be implicit or explicit. By applying the second approach in Equation (7) on the bulk boundary terms, the variation in the action with renaming the dummy indices is
From Equations (1), (2) and (11),
is proportional to the fourth power of the speed of light that in turn is directly proportional to the frequency, which can be in harmony with frequency cut-off predictions of vacuum energy density in QFT [
15,
16]. By applying the principle of stationary action as
where
or can be simplified to
is the the conformally transformed metric tensor counting for the contributions of the cloud-world metric,
in addition to the contribution from intrinsic and extrinsic curvatures of the bulk, whereas Einstein spaces are a subclass of conformal spaces [
12]. Similarly, the conformably transformed induced metric on the cloud-world’s boundary is
. The effective Newtonian gravitational parameter,
, depends on the bulk (background) curvature, which can accommodate the bulk curvature evolution against constant
for a special flat spacetime case. The field equations could remove the singularities and satisfy a conformal invariance theory.
3. Evolution of the 4D Relativistic Cloud-World Travelling in the 4D Conformal Bulk
This section visualizes the evolution of the 4D relativistic cloud-words over the conformal space-time of the 4D bulk. Galaxy formation and evolution as a 4D relativistic cloud-world travelling in a curved 4D conformal bulk as preferred by the PL18 release is considered. The entire contribution comes from the boundary term when calculating the black hole entropy using the semiclassical approach [
17,
18]. By applying this concept on the field equations in Equation (13) and multiplying by the bulk curvature,
, as
From Equation (16), the field equations yield
where
representing the intrinsic curvature of the bulk. The conformally transformed metric,
, can be expressed as
where
and
are functions of the cloud-world curvature radius
, while the conformal function
is a function of the bulk curvature radius
and it can be influenced by the cloud-world curvature radius.
is a dimensionless conformal scale factor. The derived functions in [
19] are
where the conformal function
relies on the gravitational potential of the bulk while its influence is inversely proportional to cloud-world potential. In the case of PI18’s preferred early Universe positive curvature, the gravitational potential of the bulk can be expressed in terms of the early Universe plasma of mass,
, and
denoting the radius of curvature of the bulk, where the bulk’s potential decreases with the Universe expansion and vanishes in the flat spacetime background (
. The minus sign of
reveals a spatial shrinking through evolving in the conformal time. Consequently, the conformally transformed metric
is
This metric reduces to the Schwarzschild metric in a flat background (
. The metric can be visualized through evolving in the conformal time by using Flamm's approach as
where
is a constant and
denotes less significant terms.
Figure 1 shows this scenario, which reveals that a galaxy forms as a dual forced vortices due to the curved background.
The visualization of Equation (20) as the scenario of the galaxy formation as a dual forced vortices due to the curvature of the background is shown in
Figure 1, the evolution of the 4D cloud-world of metric
through its travel and spin in the conformal space-time of the 4D bulk of metric
.
4. Gravitational, Electromagnetic and Quantum Interaction Field Equations
The action in Equation (3) is expanded to investigate the interaction of quantum fields under the influence of the field strength of vacuum energy that is reliant on the curvature of the cloud-world and bulk as follows
where
are the Lagrangian densities of two entangled quantum fields of a metric
and four-momentum
while
are the four-momentum of vacuum energy density (the Lorentz invariant zero-point energy in QFT) of a Lagrangian density
and
is a proportionality constant. The action should hold for any variation as
By considering the boundary term of the quantum cloud:
, the variation in the four-momentum
, i.e., the change in the total energy of charged fields enclosed within the quantum cloud boundary
can represent the flow of the four-current
through the cloud boundary
, where multiplying this current by the four potential that is generated by the current itself,
, and that externally applied,
, gives a scalar as follows
. This deduction is based on the gauge theory. However, the cloud’s volume and its boundary surface should be taken into consideration. The boundary term signifies variation of two entangled quantum clouds
; thus
where
is the induced metric tensor on the quantum cloud boundary. On the other hand, the cloud-world’s boundary term can be transformed as follows
where
resembles the Ricci flow in a normalized form reflecting the conformal evolution of the extrinsic curvature of the cloud-world that can be expressed as a positive function
according to Weyl’s conformal transformation as
;
as
.
The variation in the boundary term in Equation (23) with relabelling
as
yields
The last two terms resemble the Ricci flow in a normalized form reflecting the conformal distortion in the boundary, which can be expressed as a conformal function according to Weyl’s conformal transformation [
14] with renaming the dummy indices as follows
where
. Accordingly, the variation in the whole action is
By applying the principle of stationary action as
where
are Cauchy stress tensors, extended into four-dimensions as shown in
Figure 1, of the deformed configuration of two entangled quantum fields whereas
is the overall stress-energy tensor of the cloud-world and the bulk.
By separating the two entangled quantum fields with renaming the dummy indices and utilizing the dimensional analysis,
where
is the conformally transformed metric tensor counting for the contribution of the quantum cloud’s metric,
and from the intrinsic,
, curvature of the cloud-world. Compatibly,
is the conformally induced metric on the quantum cloud boundary.
By using the transformation approach of the cloud-world boundary term in Equation (24), the field equations can be further simplified to
where
is the conformally transformed metric tensor counting for the contribution of the quantum cloud’s metric,
in addition to the contribution from the intrinsic,
, and extrinsic,
, curvatures of the cloud-world.
is the Planck constant and
denotes the energy density and its flux of the quantum cloud and
is the cloud-world gravitational field strength. The equations in terms of operators are
where
is the momentum operator and
is the stress-energy (gravitational) operator.
Figure 2 shows the quantum cloud where
is the traction vector on the inner surface
and
is the unit normal vector.
The configuration is given by, , the inner surface of the quantum cloud that separates its continuum into two portions and encloses an arbitrary inner volume while is the outer surface of the cloud’s boundary.
Because the gravitational field strength of the cloud-world of mass
and at radius
is
, a plane wavefunction,
, can be expressed by utilizing the Equation (31) as
, consequently:
where
are the Dirac matrices. On the other hand, by using the explicit boundary term of the bulk in Equation (29),
, which could contribute towards the emergence of mass, the equations are
where
could represent conventional and vacuum energy spin-spin correlation.