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BI action for gravitational and electroweak fields

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v7 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

This note suggests a generalization of the Born--Infeld action (1932) on case of electroweak and gravitational fields in four-dimensional spacetime. The action is constructed from Dirac matrices, γa\gamma_a, and dimensionless covariant derivatives, πa=ia\pi_{a} = - i\ell \nabla_{a}, where \ell is of order of magnitude of Planck's length. By a postulate, the action possesses additional symmetry with respect to global transformations of the Lorentz group imposed on pairs (γa\gamma_{a}, πa\pi_{a}). It's shown, that parameter of the Lorentz group is associated with a constant value of the electroweak potential at spatial infinity. It follows, that in linear and quadratic in 2\ell^2 approximation, action for gravitational field coincides with Einstein-Hilbert (EH) and Gauss-Bonnet (GB).

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0404097,
  title  = {BI action for gravitational and electroweak fields},
  author = {Dmitriy Palatnik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0404097},
  year   = {2007}
}

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