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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

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