Observables in theories with a varying fine structure constant

DOI10.1007/S10714-015-1855-YMaRDI QIDQ902450zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Hees, Olivier L. Minazzoli, J. Larena

Publication date 18 January 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.7273

zbMATH Keywords

BSBM theoryCMB temperaturedilatonfine structure constant variationnon-minimal couplingscalar-tensor theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: We show how two seemingly different theories with a scalar multiplicative coupling to electrodynamics are actually two equivalent parametrisations of the same theory: despite some differences in the interpretation of some phenemenological aspects of the parametrisations, they lead to the same physical observables. This is illustrated on the interpretation of observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background.

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