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We formulate a simple extension of general relativity which incorporates space-time variations in the Newtonian gravitation 'constant', $G$, and the fine structure 'constant', $\alpha $, which generalises Brans-Dicke theory and our theory…

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A new idea of quantum gravity is developed based on {\it Gravitational Complementary Principle}. This principle states that gravity has dual complement features: The quantum and classical aspects of gravity are complement and absolutely…

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We advance the viewpoint that only relevant modes of the vacuum fluctuations, namely, with wavelengths conditioned by the size, homogeneity, geometry and topology of the Universe, do contribute into the cosmological constant. A formula is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 V. G. Gurzadyan , She-Sheng Xue

We review astrophysical, cosmological and terrestrial evidence for and against the constancy of fundamental parameters of particle physics, and discuss theoretical issues of unification and scalar-mediated forces, finding that the current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Dent

There are theories which implement the idea that the constants of nature may be "time dependent." These introduce new fields representing "evolving constants," in addition to physical fields. We argue that dynamical matter coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-27 Syed Moeez Hassan , Viqar Husain , Babar Qureshi

Several assumptions at the foundation of the standard cosmological model have as a direct consequence a specific relation between cosmological distances, known as the distance duality relation, whose violation would be a smoking gun of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-06 Chiara De Leo , Matteo Martinelli , Rocco D'Agostino , Giulia Gianfagna , Carlos J. A. P. Martins

We quantize the electromagnetic field in the presence of a static magnetic monopole, within the loop-representation formalism. We find that the loop-dependent wave functional becomes multivalued, in the sense that it acquires a dependence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Lorenzo Leal , Alexander Lopez

We study the full Maxwell-Dirac equations: Dirac field with minimally coupled electromagnetic field and Maxwell field with Dirac current as source. Our particular interest is the static case in which the Dirac current is purely time-like --…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chris Radford , Hilary Booth

We study electric-magnetic duality in Lorentz invariant symmetric tensor gauge theories, where immobile charged particles - fractons - arise due to the generalized current conservation $\partial_{\mu} \partial_{\nu} J^{\mu \nu} = 0$ and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-07 Ryuki Makino , Shin Sasaki , Kenta Shiozawa

We consider that the cosmological constant is associated with the vacuum energy density of a particle physics model. In the path integral formalism of euclidean quantum gravity and in the background of the Robertson Walker metric we…

General Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 Renata Jora

We consider further consequences of recently [1] revealed role of cosmological constant \Lambda as of a physical constant, along with the gravitational one to define the gravity i.e. the General Relativity and its low-energy limit. We now…

General Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 V. G. Gurzadyan , A. Stepanian

We study a general relativistic particle action obtained by incorporating the Hamiltonian constraints into the formalism as a toy model for general relativity and string theory. We show how a non-vanishing cosmological constant and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 W. F. Chagas-Filho

In unimodular-like theories, the constants of nature are demoted from pre-given parameters to phase space variables. Their canonical duals provide physical time variables. We investigate how this interacts with an alternative approach to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-12 Paolo M Bassani , Joao Magueijo

In this paper it is studied a space-time duality web that maps electric into magnetic (and magnetic into electric) charged classical stationary rotating solutions for $2+1$-dimensional Abelian Einstein Maxwell Chern-Simons theories. A first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-23 P. Castelo Ferreira

In this paper a one to one correspondence is established between space-time metrics of general relativity and the wave equations of quantum mechanics. This is done by first taking the square root of the metric associated with a space and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Paul O'Hara

An attempt to explain with the classical stands a number of statements of the quantum mechanics has been done. At this the Plank constant appears as consequence of demand of nucleon stability. Proton can be imagined as a rotating disk which…

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Using a momentum representation of a magnetic von Neumann lattice, we study a two-dimensional electron in a uniform magnetic field and obtain one-particle spectra of various periodic short-range potential problems in the lowest Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 K. Ishikawa , N. Maeda , T. Ochiai , H. Suzuki

We discuss dyons, charge quantization and electric-magnetic duality for self-interacting, abelian, p-form theories in the spacetime dimensions D=2(p+1) where dyons can be present. The corresponding quantization conditions and duality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 S. Deser , A. Gomberoff , M. Henneaux , C. Teitelboim

An eigenvalue equation representing symmetric (dual) quantum equation is introduced. The particle is described by two scalar wavefunctions, and two vector wavefunctions. The eigenfunction is found to satisfy the quantum Telegraph equation…

General Physics · Physics 2018-07-26 A. I. Arbab

Non-minimally coupled Y(R)-Maxwell gravity which have some interesting solutions may be used to understand dark matter, dark energy, the origin of cosmic magnetic field and the evaluation of the universe. We give some new solutions to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-09 Özcan Sert