$CPT$ 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 violates Lorentz and symmetries with a non-vanishing . For a fixed vector , 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 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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
11 pages, 1 figure, the version to appear in Physics Letters B