Weyl gauge-vector and complex dilaton scalar for conformal symmetry and its breaking

DOI10.1007/s10714-016-2023-8zbMath1337.83028arXiv1502.00020OpenAlexW3106242938MaRDI QIDQ272052

Hans C. Ohanian

Publication date: 20 April 2016

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00020

zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityHiggs bosonspontaneous symmetry breakingconformal invariancecomplex dilaton scalarinflationary modelsmodifications of Einstein's gravitational theorynon-Riemannian conformal geometryWeyl length transport

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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