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We work on some general extensions of the formalism for theories which preserve the relativity of inertial frames with a nonlinear action of the Lorentz transformations on momentum space. Relativistic particle models invariant under the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Alex E. Bernardini , Roldao da Rocha

In this paper I shall show how notions of Finsler geometry can be used to construct a new type of geometry using a scalar field, f, on the cotangent bundle of a differentiable manifold, M. This new geometry will be called Lorentzian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-08 Gregory W. Horndeski

We survey the geometry of Lagrange and Finsler spaces and discuss the issues related to the definition of curvature of nonholonomic manifolds enabled with nonlinear connection structure. It is proved that any commutative Riemannian geometry…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We analyse the Finsler geometries of the kinematic space of spinless and spinning electrically charged particles in an external Ra\~{n}ada field. We consider the most general actions that are invariant under the Lorentz, electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Adina V. Crişan , Ion V. Vancea

In this talk, we explore the relation between smoothly varying couplings and Lorentz violation. Within the context of a supergravity model, we present an explicit mechanism that causes the effective fine-structure parameter and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Ralf Lehnert

We present a systematic study of one-loop quantum corrections in scalar effective field theories from a geometric viewpoint, emphasizing the role of field-space curvature and its renormalisation. By treating the scalar fields as coordinates…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-28 Patrick Aigner , Luigi Bellafronte , Emanuele Gendy , Dominik Haslehner , Andreas Weiler

Lorentz invariance is one of the fundamental principles of physics, and, as such, it must be experimentally tested. The purpose of this work is to obtain, within the Standard-Model Extension, the dynamics of a Lorentz-violating spinor in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-12 Yuri Bonder

The concept of fixed-area states has proven useful for recent studies of quantum gravity, especially in connection with gravitational holography. We explore the Lorentz-signature spacetime geometry intrinsic to such fixed-area states in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Xi Dong , Donald Marolf , Pratik Rath , Amirhossein Tajdini , Zhencheng Wang

Lorentz violation is motivated by quantum gravity and it is generically described by nondynamical tensors. In this work a Lorentz violating extension of general relativity is studied where a nondynamical tensor couples to the Weyl tensor. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-30 Yuri Bonder , Christian Peterson

Following a strictly geometric approach we construct globally supersymmetric scalar field theories on the supersphere, defined as the quotient space $S^{2|2} = UOSp(1|2)/\mathcal{U}(1)$. We analyze the superspace geometry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. F. Schunck , Chris Wainwright

Recently, a link between Lorentzian and Finslerian Geometries has been carried out, leading to the notion of wind Riemannian structure (WRS), a generalization of Finslerian Randers metrics. Here, we further develop this notion and its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Miguel Ángel Javaloyes , Miguel Sánchez

We formulate an approach to the geometry of Riemann-Cartan spaces provided with nonholonomic distributions defined by generic off-diagonal and nonsymmetric metrics inducing effective nonlinear and affine connections. Such geometries can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-19 Sergiu I. Vacaru

Several lagrangians associated to classical limits of lorenz-violating fermions in the Standard Model extension (SME) have been shown to yield Finsler functions when the theory is expressed in Euclidean space. When spin-couplings are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-07 Don Colladay , Patrick McDonald

This talk at the CPT'25 meeting presents an overview of some recent results in Lorentz and CPT violation. Topics covered include the geometry of Finsler spaces associated with Lorentz violation, the resolution of the concordance problem in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-01 Alan Kostelecky

The paper introduces a general mathematical framework for action based field theories on Finsler spacetimes. As most often fields on Finsler spacetime (e.g., the Finsler fundamental function or the resulting metric tensor) have a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Manuel Hohmann , Christian Pfeifer , Nicoleta Voicu

Many candidate fundamental theories contain scalar fields that can acquire spacetime-varying expectation values in a cosmological context. Such scalars typically obey Lorentz-violating effective dispersion relations. We illustrate this fact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Orfeu Bertolami , Ralf Lehnert , Robertus Potting , Andre Ribeiro

Lorentz violation has been a popular field in recent years in the search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. We present a general method to build all Lorentz-violating terms in gauge field theories, including ones involving operators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-01 Zonghao Li

We construct the consistent ghost-free covariant scalar-vector-tensor gravity theories with second order equations of motion with derivative interactions. We impose locality, unitarity, Lorentz invariance and pseudo-Riemannian geometry as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-07 Lavinia Heisenberg

In spite of its problems with interactions, the first-quantized Klein-Gordon equation is a satisfactory theory of free spinless particles. Moreover, the usual theory may be extended to describe Lorentz-violating behavior, of the same types…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Brett Altschul

We describe a novel procedure to map the field equations of nonlinear Ricci-based metric-affine theories of gravity, coupled to scalar matter described by a given Lagrangian, into the field equations of General Relativity coupled to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-27 Victor I. Afonso , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Emanuele Orazi , Diego Rubiera-Garcia