English

Emergent Planck mass and dark energy from affine gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-11-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We introduce a novel model of affine gravity, which implements the no-scale scenario. Namely, Planck mass and Hubble constant emerge dynamically, through the mechanism of spontaneous breaking of scale-invariance. Moreover, in our model the time direction and non--degenerate metric emerge dynamically as well. This naturally gives rise to the inflation and may server as a starting point for the "birth" of the Universe. We show that our model is phenomenologically viable, both from the perspective of the direct tests of gravity and cosmological evolution.

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@article{arxiv.2002.12178,
  title  = {Emergent Planck mass and dark energy from affine gravity},
  author = {I. Kharuk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.12178},
  year   = {2021}
}