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Confinement, Vacuum Structure: from QCD to Quantum Gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-10-06 v1

Abstract

A minimal Lorentz gauge gravity model with R^2-type Lagrangian is proposed. In the absence of torsion the model admits a topological phase with unfixed metric. The model possesses a minimal set of dynamical degrees of freedom for the torsion. Remarkably, the torsion has the same number of dynamical of-shell degrees of freedom as the metric tensor. We trace an analogy between the structure of the quantum chromodynamics and the structure of possible theory of quantum gravity.

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@article{arxiv.1005.0110,
  title  = {Confinement, Vacuum Structure: from QCD to Quantum Gravity},
  author = {D. G. Pak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.0110},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

7 pages; reduced version of talk given at IV International Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics (SSP 2009), plenary session in Honor of Yongmin Cho's 65th Birthday, Taipei, Taiwan, 2-5 June 2009; to appear in "Symmetries in Subatomic Physics", ed. P. Hwang.

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