Spontaneously generated tensor field gravity

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.03.009zbMATH Open1215.81050arXiv1102.5440OpenAlexW1991030760MaRDI QIDQ545251FDOQ545251

Authors: J. L. Chkareuli, C. Froggatt, Holger Bech Nielsen 

Publication date: 22 June 2011

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An arbitrary local theory of a symmetric two-tensor field $H_{muu}$ in Minkowski spacetime is considered, in which the equations of motion are required to be compatible with a nonlinear length-fixing constraint $H_{muu}^2=pm{M}^2$ leading to spontaneous Lorentz invariance violation, SLIV ($M$ is the proposed scale for SLIV). Allowing the parameters in the Lagrangian to be adjusted so as to be consistent with this constraint, the theory turns out to correspond to linearized general relativity in the weak field approximation, while some of the massless tensor Goldstone modes appearing through SLIV are naturally collected in the physical graviton. In essence the underlying diffeomophism invariance emerges as a necessary condition for the tensor field $H_{muu}$ not to be superfluously restricted in degrees of freedom, apart from the constraint due to which the true vacuum in the theory is chosen by SLIV. The emergent theory appears essentially nonlinear, when expressed in terms of the pure Goldstone tensor modes and contains a plethora of new Lorentz and $CPT$ violating couplings. However, these couplings do not lead to physical Lorentz violation once this tensor field gravity is properly extended to conventional general relativity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.5440

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zbMATH Keywords

emergent gravityspontaneous Lorentz violationGoldstone bosons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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