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现代宇宙学背景下的Weyl-Eddington- Einstein仿射引力

On the Weyl - Eddington - Einstein affine gravity in the context of modern cosmology

A. T. Filippov

摘要:

我们提出了新的模型的“仿射”引力理论在$D$维时空对称连接。他们是基于思想的外尔,爱丁顿和爱因斯坦,特别是对爱因斯坦的建议,以指定的时空几何使用的汉密尔顿原则。更具体地说,连接系数是通过改变一个“几何”拉格朗日量来推导的,该拉格朗日量被认为是广义(非对称)里奇曲率张量(以及可能的其他基本张量)的任意函数,该函数以连接系数作为自变量来表示。除了标准的爱因斯坦引力,这样的理论预言了暗能量(一级近似下的宇宙学常数)、中性质量(或快子)矢量场和质量(或快子)标量场。这些场只与重力耦合,可能产生暗物质和/或暴胀。质量(实的或虚的)有几何起源,人们无法避免它们在任何具体模型中的出现。这个理论的进一步细节--比如可以描述大质量粒子、快子甚至“幻影”的矢量场和标量场的性质--取决于几何拉格朗日量的具体选择。在“自然”几何理论中,暗能量也是不可避免的。主要参数--质量、宇宙学常数、可能的无量纲常数--无法预测,但是,在现代“多元宇宙”思想的框架中,这是该理论的优点而不是缺点。为了更好地理解可能的应用理论,我们讨论了一些进一步的扩展的仿射模型和分析更详细的近似(“物理”)拉格朗日,可以应用于宇宙学的早期宇宙。

英文摘要:

We propose new models of an `affine' theory of gravity in $D$-dimensional space-times with symmetric connections. They are based on ideas of Weyl, Eddington and Einstein and, in particular, on Einstein's proposal to specify the space - time geometry by use of the Hamilton principle. More specifically, the connection coefficients are derived by varying a `geometric' Lagrangian that is supposed to be an arbitrary function of the generalized (non-symmetric) Ricci curvature tensor (and, possibly, of other fundamental tensors) expressed in terms of the connection coefficients regarded as independent variables. In addition to the standard Einstein gravity, such a theory predicts dark energy (the cosmological constant, in the first approximation), a neutral massive (or, tachyonic) vector field, and massive (or, tachyonic) scalar fields. These fields couple only to gravity and may generate dark matter and/or inflation. The masses (real or imaginary) have geometric origin and one cannot avoid their appearance in any concrete model. Further details of the theory - such as the nature of the vector and scalar fields that can describe massive particles, tachyons, or even `phantoms' - depend on the concrete choice of the geometric Lagrangian. In `natural' geometric theories, which are discussed here, dark energy is also unavoidable. Main parameters - mass, cosmological constant, possible dimensionless constants - cannot be predicted, but, in the framework of modern `multiverse' ideology, this is rather a virtue than a drawback of the theory. To better understand possible applications of the theory we discuss some further extensions of the affine models and analyze in more detail approximate (`physical') Lagrangians that can be applied to cosmology of the early Universe.

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