Antigravity from a spacetime defect
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2018-06-27 v5 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We argue that there may exist spacetime defects embedded in Minkowski spacetime, which have negative active gravitational mass. One such spacetime defect then repels a test particle, corresponding to what may be called "antigravity."
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@article{arxiv.1803.09736,
title = {Antigravity from a spacetime defect},
author = {F. R. Klinkhamer and J. M. Queiruga},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.09736},
year = {2018}
}
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16 pages, v5: published version