SPONTANEOUS BREAKDOWN OF DIFFEOMORPHISM INVARIANCE

被引：18

作者：

GIDDINGS, SB

机构：

[1] Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

来源：

PHYSICS LETTERS B | 1991年 / 268卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.1016/0370-2693(91)90915-D

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

A mechanism for spontaneous breakdown of a hypothetical diffeomorphism invariant phase of gravity, with vanishing expectation value for the metric, is described. The conformal sector of gravity destabilizes the invariant vacuum, leading to a spontaneous breakdown of diffeomorphism invariance.

引用

页码：17 / 20

页数：4

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