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Physical Consequences of a Theory with Dynamical Volume Element

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-06 v1 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We survey motivation, basic ideas and physical consequences of a theory where the underlying action involves terms both with the usual volume element gd4x\sqrt{-g}d^{4}x and with the new one Φd4x=4!dφ1dφ2dφ3dφ4\Phi d^{4}x={4!}d\varphi_{1}\wedge d\varphi_{2}\wedge d\varphi_{3}\wedge d\varphi_{4}. The latter may be interpreted as the 4-form determined on the 4-D space-time manifold (not necessary Riemannian). Regarding the scalar fields φa(a=1,...4)\varphi_{a} (a=1,...4) as new dynamical variables and proceeding in the first order formalism we realize the so-called Two Measures Theory which possesses a number of attractive features. We discuss new physical effects which arise from this theory and in particular strong gravity effect in high energy physics experiments.

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@article{arxiv.0811.0793,
  title  = {Physical Consequences of a Theory with Dynamical Volume Element},
  author = {E. I. Guendelman and A. B. Kaganovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.0793},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

23 pages, 7 figures, plenary talk given at the Workshop Geometry, Topology, QFT and Cosmology, Paris, 28-30 May 2008

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