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Gravity at Finite Temperature, Equivalence Principle,and Local Lorentz Invariance

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2023-02-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In this Chapter we illustrate the close connection between the violation of the weak equivalence principle typical of gravitational interactions at finite temperature, and similar violations induced by a breaking of the local Lorentz symmetry. We also discuss the physical implications of the effective repulsive forces possibly arising in such a generalized gravitational context, by considering, for an illustrative purpose, a quasi-Riemannian model of gravity with rotational symmetry as the local gauge group in tangent space.

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@article{arxiv.2101.00458,
  title  = {Gravity at Finite Temperature, Equivalence Principle,and Local Lorentz Invariance},
  author = {M. Gasperini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.00458},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

21 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the book "Breakdown of the Einstein's Equivalence Principle", ed. by A. G. Lebed (World Scientific, 2021). A few typos corrected, two references added