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$CPT$ Violating Electrodynamics and Chern-Simons Modified Gravity

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-16 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The electrodynamics with a Chern-Simons term pμAνF~μνp_{\mu}A_{\nu}\widetilde{F}^{\mu\nu} violates Lorentz and CPTCPT symmetries with a non-vanishing pμp_{\mu}. For a fixed vector pμp_{\mu}, in this paper we point out that the energy-momentum tensor of this theory coupled to the gravity minimally is symmetric but not divergence free, which consequently makes the gravitational field equation inconsistent. To preserve the consistency, we introduce a Chern-Simons term in the gravity sector with the coefficient determined by the Lorentz and CPTCPT violating term in the electromagnetic field. Further we study the phenomenologies of the model on the cosmic microwave background radiation and the relic gravitational waves.

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@article{arxiv.0907.5159,
  title  = {$CPT$ Violating Electrodynamics and Chern-Simons Modified Gravity},
  author = {Mingzhe Li and Yi-Fu Cai and Xiulian Wang and Xinmin Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.5159},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, 1 figure, the version to appear in Physics Letters B

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