Publication:2798638

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-20224-2_11zbMATH Open1334.83005arXiv1208.1071OpenAlexW1523596317WikidataQ62580477 ScholiaQ62580477MaRDI QIDQ2798638FDOQ2798638

David Mattingly, S. Liberati

Publication date: 13 April 2016

Published in: Gravity: Where Do We Stand? (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A number of different approaches to quantum gravity are at least partly phenomenologically characterized by their treatment of Lorentz symmetry, in particular whether the symmetry is exact or modified/broken at the smallest scales. For example, string theory generally preserves Lorentz symmetry while analog gravity and Lifshitz models break it at microscopic scales. In models with broken Lorentz symmetry there are a vast number of constraints on departures from Lorentz invariance that can be established with low energy experiments by employing the techniques of effective field theory in both the matter and gravitational sectors. We shall review here the low energy effective field theory approach to Lorentz breaking in these sectors and present various constraints provided by available observations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.1071

zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityeffective field theoryLorentz symmetrybroken Lorentz symmetryLorentz breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Special relativity (83A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02)

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