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Ashtekar引力中作为费米以太的Horava-Lifshitz理论

Horava-Lifshitz theory as a Fermionic Aether in Ashtekar gravity

Stephon Alexander, Joao Magueijo, Antonino Marciano

摘要:

我们展示了如何Hoenava-Lifshitz(HL)理论自然出现在Ashtekar制定的相对论,如果一个假设存在的费米子场发挥作用的以太。与这个场相关的空间电流必须被切断,以使等价物起作用。因此,场提供了与破缺复叶(时间同形)不变性相关的优选框架,但显然,只有当场是动态的时,对称性才自发破缺。当狄拉克费米子通过Ashtekar变量耦合到引力场时,HL引力的低能极限,用Ashtekar变量的语言重新描述,自然出现(假设空间费米子流同样消失)。因此,HL引力可以被解释为充满时空的类时电流或费米以太,其中Immirzi参数、手征费米子耦合和费米子电荷密度固定了决定HL理论的参数$λ$的值。这种重新解释揭示了HL理论的一些特征,即它良好的收敛性。

英文摘要:

We show how Hořava-Lifshitz (HL) theory appears naturally in the Ashtekar formulation of relativity if one postulates the existence of a fermionic field playing the role of aether. The spatial currents associated with this field must be switched off for the equivalence to work. Therefore the field supplies the preferred frame associated with breaking refoliation (time diffeomorphism) invariance, but obviously the symmetry is only spontaneously broken if the field is dynamic. When Dirac fermions couple to the gravitational field via the Ashtekar variables, the low energy limit of HL gravity, recast in the language of Ashtekar variables, naturally emerges (provided the spatial fermion current identically vanishes). HL gravity can therefore be interpreted as a time-like current, or a Fermi aether, that fills space-time, with the Immirzi parameter, a chiral fermionic coupling, and the fermionic charge density fixing the value of the parameter $λ$ determining HL theory. This reinterpretation sheds light on some features of HL theory, namely its good convergence properties.

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