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Spontaneous "Scalar-Vector Galileons" from "Weyl bi-Connection" model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-07-02 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Weyl bi-connection model manifests a natural framework to automatically produce the Galileon structure. It is shown that this framework can explain scalar Galileon, vector Galileon as well as their interactions by generalizing the Weyl non-metricity. So it can be interpreted as a geometrical realization for Galileons. The non-metricity part enjoys a U(1)U(1) gauge invariance. The result is interestingly non-trivial since the Galileon structure appears spontaneously and not by demanding the absence of the Ostrogradsky ghost. This fact suggests a possible deeper conceptual relation between Weyl bi-connection model and the absence of Ostrogradsky ghost.

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@article{arxiv.1404.7503,
  title  = {Spontaneous "Scalar-Vector Galileons" from "Weyl bi-Connection" model},
  author = {Nima Khosravi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.7503},
  year   = {2014}
}

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