Background Fields and Gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2016-07-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Gravitational theories with fixed background fields break diffeomorphism invariance. This breaking can be spontaneous or explicit. A brief summary of the main consequences of these types of breaking is presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1607.07714,
title = {Background Fields and Gravity},
author = {R. Bluhm},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.07714},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Presented at the Seventh Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, Bloomington, Indiana, June 20-24, 2016