Imperial College London
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Prof Joao Magueijo

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Professor of Physics
 
 
 
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Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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@article{Magueijo:2014:10.1103/PhysRevD.89.063542,
author = {Magueijo, J and Rodriguez-Vazquez, M and Westman, H and Zlosnik, T},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.89.063542},
journal = {Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology},
pages = {063542--1--063542--18},
title = {Cosmological signature change in Cartan gravity with dynamical symmetry breaking},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.063542},
volume = {89},
year = {2014}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - We investigate the possibility for classical metric signature change in a straightforward generalization of the first-order formulation of gravity, dubbed “Cartan gravity.” The mathematical structure of this theory mimics the electroweak theory in that the basic ingredients are an SO(1,4) Yang-Mills gauge field Aabμ and a symmetry breaking Higgs field Va, with no metric or affine structure of spacetime presupposed. However, these structures can be recovered, with the predictions of general relativity exactly reproduced, whenever the Higgs field breaking the symmetry to SO(1,3) is forced to have a constant (positive) norm VaVa. This restriction is usually imposed “by hand,” but in analogy with the electroweak theory we promote the gravitational Higgs field Va to a genuine dynamical field, subject to nontrivial equations of motion. Even though we limit ourselves to actions polynomial in these variables, we discover a rich phenomenology. Most notably we derive classical cosmological solutions exhibiting a smooth transition between Euclidean and Lorentzian signature in the four-metric. These solutions are nonsingular and arise whenever the SO(1,4) norm of the Higgs field changes sign; i.e. the signature of the metric of spacetime is determined dynamically by the gravitational Higgs field. It is possible to find a plethora of such solutions and in some of them this dramatic behavior is confined to the early Universe, with the theory asymptotically tending to Einstein gravity at late times. Curiously the theory can also naturally embody a well-known dark energy model: Peebles-Ratra quintessence.
AU  - Magueijo,J
AU  - Rodriguez-Vazquez,M
AU  - Westman,H
AU  - Zlosnik,T
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.063542
EP  - 1
PY  - 2014///
SN  - 1550-2368
SP  - 063542
TI  - Cosmological signature change in Cartan gravity with dynamical symmetry breaking
T2  - Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.063542
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000334311300006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.063542
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/73787
VL  - 89
ER  -
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