Conformal gravity with electrodynamics for fermion fields and their symmetry breaking mechanism

被引:4
作者
Fabbri, Luca [1 ,2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Genoa, DIPTEM Sez Metodi & Modelli Matemat, I-16129 Genoa, Italy
[2] Univ Bologna, INFN, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[3] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
关键词
Torsion tensor; conformal invariance; symmetry breaking; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT; GENERAL-RELATIVITY; QUANTUM-GRAVITY; SPACE-TIME; TORSION; MATTER; ENERGY; SPIN;
D O I
10.1142/S0219887814500194
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
In this paper, we consider an axial torsion to build metric-compatible connections in conformal gravity, with gauge potentials; the geometric background is filled with Dirac spinors: scalar fields with suitable potentials are added eventually. The system of field equations is worked out to have torsional effects converted into spinorial self-interactions: the massless spinors display self-interactions of a specific form that gives them the features they have in the non-conformal theory but with the additional character of renormalizability, and the mechanisms of generation of mass and cosmological constants become dynamical. As a final step we will address the cosmological constant problem and the coincidence issue.
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