  The ultraviolet cutoff on a quantum field theory can be interpreted as a
condensate of the affine curvature such that while the maximum of the affine
action gives the power-law corrections, its minimum leads to the emergence of
gravity. This mechanism applies also to fundamental strings as their spinless
unstable ground levels can be represented by the scalar affine curvature such
that open strings (D-branes) decay to closed strings and closed strings to
finite minima with emergent gravity. Affine curvature is less sensitive to
massive string levels than the tachyon, and the field-theoretic and stringy
emergent gravities take the same form. It may be that affine condensation
provides an additional link between the string theory and the known physics at
low energies.
