Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Non-minimal Coupling, and Cosmological Constant Problem
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Treating the gravitational field as a dynamical field, we study the spontaneous symmetry breaking induced by a scalar field under its self-interaction and non-minimal interaction with gravity in four dimensional space-time. In particular, we explore the feasibility of inducing spontaneous symmetry breaking after introducing the non-minimal coupling, and discuss briefly the cosmological constant problem corresponding to the phase transition associated with the spontaneous symmetry breaking.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0105133,
title = {Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Non-minimal Coupling, and Cosmological Constant Problem},
author = {Je-An Gu and W-Y. P. Hwang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0105133},
year = {2007}
}
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8 pages, LaTeX