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 and with the new one . The latter may be interpreted as the 4-form determined on the 4-D space-time manifold (not necessary Riemannian). Regarding the scalar fields 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.
Cite
@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