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Frozen up Dilaton and the GUT/Planck Mass Ratio

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-06-27 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

By treating modulus and phase on equal footing, as prescribed by Dirac, local scale invariance can consistently accompany any Brans-Dicke ω\omega-theory. We show that in the presence of a soft scale symmetry breaking term, the classical solution, if it exists, cannot be anything else but general relativistic. The dilaton modulus gets frozen up by the Weyl-Proca vector field, thereby constituting a gravitational quasi-Higgs mechanism. Assigning all grand unified scalars as dilatons, they enjoy Weyl universality, and upon symmetry breaking, the Planck (mass)2^2 becomes the sum of all their individual (VEV)2^2s. The emerging GUT/Planck (mass)2^2 ratio is thus ωgGUT2/4π\sim \omega g_{GUT}^2/4\pi.

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@article{arxiv.1706.00368,
  title  = {Frozen up Dilaton and the GUT/Planck Mass Ratio},
  author = {Aharon Davidson and Tomer Ygael},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.00368},
  year   = {2017}
}

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6 pages, v.2 References added, Phys. Lett. B, in press