Astrophysical evidence for the non-Hermitian but PT -symmetric Hamiltonian of conformal gravity

DOI10.1002/prop.201200100zbMath1338.81393arXiv1205.5717MaRDI QIDQ2812922

Philip D. Mannheim

Publication date: 13 June 2016

Published in: Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5717

zbMATH Keywords

PT symmetry; conformal gravity; galactic rotation curves; non-diagonalizable Hamiltonians

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T40: Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics

83F05: Relativistic cosmology

81V17: Gravitational interaction in quantum theory

81R05: Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations

85A05: Galactic and stellar dynamics

81Q12: Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators

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