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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

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