Spontaneous breaking of Weyl quadratic gravity to Einstein action and Higgs potential

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2019)049zbMath1414.83011arXiv1812.08613OpenAlexW3106222196WikidataQ128225952 ScholiaQ128225952MaRDI QIDQ2421066

D. M. Ghilencea

Publication date: 8 June 2019

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08613

zbMATH Keywords

spontaneous symmetry breakingclassical theories of gravityHiggs physicseffective field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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