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Bilocal theory and gravity I

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-05-26 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

With the aim of investigating the relation between gravity and non-locality at the classical level, we study a bilocal scalar field model. Bilocality introduces new (internal) degrees of freedom that seem to reproduce gravity. We show that the equations of motion of the massless branch of the free bilocal model match those of linearized gravity. We also discuss higher orders of perturbation theory, where there is self-interaction in both gravity and the bilocal field sectors.

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@article{arxiv.1609.08631,
  title  = {Bilocal theory and gravity I},
  author = {Pablo Diaz and Saurya Das and Mark Walton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.08631},
  year   = {2017}
}

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21 pages, 2 figures

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