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The bumblebee field coupled with gravity is considered. This gravitational theory exhibits spontaneous breaking of Lorentz symmetry. The G\"{o}del-type universe is introduced and then the causality and its violation are studied. Causal and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-20 W. D. R. Jesus , A. F. Santos

We investigate the critical behavior of Lifshitz black holes in Einstein-dilaton gravity in the context of spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking. Considering the effects of both the bumblebee vacuum expectation value (VEV) and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-15 L. A. Lessa , J. E. G. Silva

These proceedings summarise some recent efforts in understanding a class of vector-tensor theories known as {\it bumblebee} models, which spontaneously break local Lorentz and diffeomorphism invariance. Using cosmological perturbation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-23 Nils A. Nilsson

We study Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity coupled to a bumblebee field which leads to a spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking in the gravitational sector. We obtain an exact black hole solution and a cosmological solution in four dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-03 Chikun Ding , Xiongwen Chen , Xiangyun Fu

In this paper, we examine the physical consequences of a recently introduced black hole solution in bumblebee gravity [1]. The geometry is first presented and then reformulated through suitable coordinate adjustments, which make its global…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-02 A. A. Araújo Filho , N. Heidari , Iarley P. Lobo , V. B. Bezerra

A vector field coming from spontaneous Lorentz violation mechanism, namely Bumblebee model is analysed in a topological framework in a $(1+2)D$ Minkowski space-time. Taking a $(1+2)D$ nonlinear Bumblebee vector matter field dynamics where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-27 L. P. Colatto , A. L. A. Penna , W. C. Santos

We investigate some quantum features of the bumblebee electrodynamics in flat spacetimes. The bumblebee field is a vector field that leads to a spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking. For a smooth quadratic potential, the massless excitation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-18 R. V. Maluf , J. E. G. Silva , C. A. S. Almeida

We investigated the effects of the spacetime curvature and extra dimensions on the excitations of a self-interacting vector field known as the bumblebee field. The self-interacting quadratic potential breaks the gauge invariance and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-20 L. A. Lessa , J. E. G. Silva , C. A. S. Almeida

The breakdown of Lorentz invariance, a potential signature of quantum gravity, offers a window into physics beyond general relativity. We investigate how such a violation, embodied by the Einstein-Bumblebee black hole spacetime, influences…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-02 Yangchun Tang , Zhilong Liu , Wentao Liu , Jieci Wang

Theories with spontaneous local Lorentz and diffeomorphism violation contain massless Nambu-Goldstone modes, which arise as field excitations in the minimum of the symmetry-breaking potential. If the shape of the potential also allows…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert Bluhm , Shu-Hong Fung , Alan Kostelecky

In this paper, we study the spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking for a four-dimensional massless four-fermion model. Our methodology is based on use of the rationalized propagator. We show that a bumblebee potential arises as a result of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-04 J. F. Assuncao , T. Mariz , J. R. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov

Within the framework of the spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking, we consider a metric--affine generalization of the gravitational sector of the Standard--Model Extension (SME), including the Lorentz--violating (LV) coefficients $u$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-03 A. A. Araújo Filho , J. R. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov , P. J. Porfírio

We extend spontaneous baryogenesis by considering the spontaneous breaking of $U(1)_B$ through a complex vector field. This field interacts with baryons and leptons via a vector-current coupling and, by construction, acquires a nonzero…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Mattia Dubbini , Orlando Luongo , Aniello Quaranta

The fate of the Nambu-Goldstone modes arising from spontaneous Lorentz violation is investigated. Using the vierbein formalism, it is shown that up to 10 Lorentz and diffeomorphism Nambu-Goldstone modes can appear and that they are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-09 Robert Bluhm , Alan Kostelecky

Binary pulsars are ideal to test the foundations of General Relativity, such as Lorentz symmetry, which requires that experiments produce the same results in all free-falling (i.e.inertial) frames. We here break this symmetry in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-21 Kent Yagi , Diego Blas , Enrico Barausse , Nicolas Yunes

In any theory with spontaneous symmetry breaking, it is important to account for the massless Nambu-Goldstone and massive Higgs modes. In this short review, the fate of these modes is examined for the case of a bumblebee model, in which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Robert Bluhm

Lorentz-violating operators involving Standard Model fields are tightly constrained by experimental data. However, bounds are more model-independent for Lorentz violation appearing in purely gravitational couplings. The spontaneous breaking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Michael L. Graesser , Alejandro Jenkins , Mark B. Wise

The metric-affine bumblebee model in the presence of fermionic matter minimally coupled to the connection is studied. We show that the model admits an Einstein frame representation in which the matter sector is described by a non-minimal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 Adrià Delhom , T. Mariz , J. R. Nascimento , Gonzalo J. Olmo , A. Yu. Petrov , P. J. Porfirio

We have obtained an exact vacuum solution from a gravity sector contained in the minimal standard-model extension. The theoretical model assumes a Riemann spacetime coupled to the bumblebee field which is responsible for the spontaneous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-07 R. Casana , A. Cavalcante , F. P. Poulis , E. B. Santos

Einstein-bumblebee gravity, as a class of massive non-minimally coupled vector-tensor theories, provides a useful framework for constraining Lorentz symmetry breaking through astrophysical observations, largely due to the existence of exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-23 Zhe Luo , Shoulong Li , Hongwei Yu