{"title":"New Gauge Symmetry in Gravity and the Evanescent Role of Torsion","authors":"H. Kleinert","doi":"10.1142/9789814335614_0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814335614_0016","url":null,"abstract":"If the Einstein-Hilbert action LEH ∝ R is re-expressed in Riemann-Cartan spacetime using the gauge fields of translations, the vierbein field h α μ, and the gauge field of local Lorentz transformations, the spin connection Aμα β , there exists a new gauge symmetry which permits reshuffling the torsion, partially or totally, into the Cartan curvature term of the Einstein tensor, and back, via a new multivalued gauge transformation. Torsion can be chosen at will by an arbitrary gauge fixing functional. There exist many equivalent ways of specifying the theory, for instance Einstein's traditional way where LEH is expressed completely in terms of the metric gμν = h α μhαν, and the torsion is zero, or Einstein's teleparallel formulation, where LEH is expressed in terms of the torsion tensor, or an infinity of intermediate ways. As far as the gravitational field in the far-zone of a celestial object is concerned, matter composed of spinning particles can be replaced by matter with only orbital angular momentum, without changing the long-distance forces, no matter which of the various new gauge representations is used. c","PeriodicalId":140890,"journal":{"name":"Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128457539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does a Randall-Sundrum Brane world effective potential influence axion walls helping to form a cosmological constant affecting inflation?","authors":"A. Beckwith","doi":"10.4236/JHEPGC.2016.21013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/JHEPGC.2016.21013","url":null,"abstract":"In 2003, Guth posed the following question in a KITP seminar in UCSB. Namely “Even if there exist 101000 vacuum states produced by String theory, does inflation produce overwhelmingly one preferred type of vacuum states over the other possible types of vacuum states”? This document tries to answer how a preferred vacuum state could be produced, and by what sort of process. We construct a di quark condensate leading to a cosmological constant in line with known physical observations. We use a phase transition bridge from a tilted washboard potential to the chaotic inflationary model pioneered by Guth which is congruent with the slow roll criteria. This permits criteria for initiation of graviton production from a domain wall formed after a transition to a chaotic inflationary potential. It also permits investigation of if or not axion wall contributions to inflation are necessary. If we reject an explicit axion mass drop off to infinitesimal values at high temperatures, we may use the Bogomolnyi inequality to rescale and reset initial conditions for the chaotic inflationary potential. Then the Randall-Sundrum brane world effective potential delineates the end of the dominant role of di quarks, and the beginning of inflation. And perhaps answers Freeman Dysons contention that Graviton production is unlikely given present astrophysical constraints upon detector systems. We end this with a description in the last appendix entry, Appendix VI, as to why, given the emphasis upon di quarks, as to the usefulness of using times before Planck time interval as to modeling our physical system and its importance as to emergent field structures used for cosmological modeling.","PeriodicalId":140890,"journal":{"name":"Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132839011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}