Embedding Brans-Dicke gravity into electroweak theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We argue that a version of the four dimensional Brans-Dicke theory can be embedded in the standard flat spacetime electroweak theory. The embedding involves a change of variables that separates the isospin from the hypercharge in the electroweak theory.
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@article{arxiv.0709.0586,
title = {Embedding Brans-Dicke gravity into electroweak theory},
author = {M. N. Chernodub and Antti J. Niemi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.0586},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages, no figures; replaced to match published version