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A dynamical symmetry breaking model in Weyl space

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-11-19 v1

Abstract

The dynamical process following the breaking of Weyl geometry to Riemannian geometry is considered by studying the motion of de Sitter bubbles in a Weyl vacuum. The bubbles are given in terms of an exact, spherically symmetric thin shell solution to the Einstein equations in a Weyl-Dirac theory with a time-dependent scalar field of the form beta = f(t)/r. The dynamical solutions obtained lead to a number of possible applications. An important feature of the thin shell model is the manner in which beta provides a connection between the interior and exterior geometries since information about the exterior geometry is contained in the boundary conditions for beta.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9805035,
  title  = {A dynamical symmetry breaking model in Weyl space},
  author = {A. Feoli and W. R. Wood and G. Papini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9805035},
  year   = {2010}
}

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18 pages, RevTex, to be published in J. Math. Phys

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