Higgs and gravitational scalar fields together induce Weyl gauge

DOI10.1007/S10714-015-1854-ZzbMATH Open1329.83166arXiv1407.6811OpenAlexW3100073226MaRDI QIDQ902453FDOQ902453

Authors: Erhard Scholz 

Publication date: 18 January 2016

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

Abstract: A common biquadratic potential for the Higgs field $h$ and an additional scalar field $phi$, non minimally coupled to gravity, is considered in locally scale symmetric approaches to standard model fields in curved spacetime. A common ground state of the two scalar fields exists and couples both fields to gravity, more precisely to scalar curvature $R$. In Einstein gauge ($phi=const$, often called "Einstein frame"), also $R$ is scaled to a constant. This condition makes perfect sense, even in the general case, in the Weyl geometric approach. There it has been called {em Weyl gauge}, because it was first considered by Weyl in the different context of his original scale geometric theory of gravity of 1918. Now it seems to get new meaning as a combined effect of electroweak theory and gravity, and their common influence on atomic frequencies.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.6811

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zbMATH Keywords

Higgs fieldWeyl geometrygravitational scalar fieldlocal scale invariance/covariancemeasuring processWeyl gaugeWeyl-omote-Dirac gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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