MGAT8 - Alternative Theories |
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Potting, Robertus |
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Lorentz violation and gravity |
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A model of gravity is presented based on spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking. The gravitons in this model arise as the Nambu-Goldstone (NG) bosons of the spontaneously broken symmetries. The Lagrangian is highly constrained by the application of a bootstrap procedure based on the principle of consistent coupling to the total energy energy-momentum tensor. It is shown that, at low energy, the resulting lagrangian for the NG modes is equivalent to General Relativity in a fixed gauge. We discuss some issues related to quantization. |
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