Embedding Brans-Dicke gravity into electroweak theory

M. N. Chernodub and Antti J. Niemi
Phys. Rev. D 77, 127902 – Published 27 June 2008
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    We argue that a version of the four dimensional Brans-Dicke theory can be embedded in the standard flat spacetime electroweak theory. The embedding involves a change of variables that separates the isospin from the hypercharge in the electroweak theory.

    • Received 26 September 2007

    DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.77.127902

    ©2008 American Physical Society

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    M. N. Chernodub1,* and Antti J. Niemi2,3,4,†

    • 1Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, B. Cheremushkinskaya 25, Moscow 117218, Russia
    • 2LMPT, CNRS UMR 6083, Fédération Denis Poisson, Université de Tours, Parc de Grandmont, F37200, Tours, France
    • 3Department of Theoretical Physics, Uppsala University, P.O. Box 803, S-75108, Uppsala, Sweden
    • 4Chern Institute of Mathematics, Tianjin 300071, People’s Republic of China

    • *Maxim.Chernodub@itep.ru
    • †Antti.Niemi@teorfys.uu.se; http://www.teorfys.uu.se/people/antti

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    Vol. 77, Iss. 12 — 15 June 2008

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