Higgs potential from Weyl conformal gravity

DOI10.1142/S0217732320503046MaRDI QIDQ4964162zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ichiro Oda

Publication date 24 February 2021

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10867

zbMATH Keywords

conformal Weyl gravitycosmological constantEinstein frameHiggs mechanismJordan framespontaneous symmetry breakdown

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We consider Weyl's conformal gravity coupled to a complex matter field in Weyl geometry. It is shown that a Higgs potential naturally arises from a $ilde{R}^2$ term in moving from the Jordan frame to the Einstein frame. A massless Nambu-Goldstone boson, which stems from spontaneous symmetry breakdown of the Weyl gauge invariance, is absorbed into the Weyl gauge field, thereby the gauge field becoming massive. We present a model where the gravitational interaction generates a Higgs potential whose form is a perfect square. Finally, we show that a theory in the Jordan frame is gauge-equivalent to the corresponding theory in the Einstein frame via the BRST formalism.

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