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How three interacting matrices might generate space from scratch

Yue Lei, Suddhasattwa Brahma, Robert Brandenberger

May 13, 2026

Starting from bosonic multi-matrix quantum mechanics, the collective field approach trades individual matrix entries for gauge-invariant density variables, compressing the dynamics into an effective Hamiltonian. For the three-matrix case, the vacuum solution is found explicitly and its stability is checked. The framework is motivated by proposals in which classical spacetime is not fundamental but emerges from the large-N limit of matrix models, making the vacuum and its fluctuations the seed of emergent geometry.
Published as Multi-Matrix Quantum Mechanics, Collective Fields and Emergent Space arXiv:2605.13972
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