Lorentz-breaking effects in scalar-tensor theories of gravity

Details Lorentz-breaking effects in scalar-tensor theories of gravity Lorentz-breaking effects in scalar-tensor theories of gravity

2004-05-21

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0405181v1

Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 044018

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

10 pages, no figures, ReVTex format

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.71.044018

In this work, we study the effects of breaking Lorentz symmetry in scalar-tensor theories of gravity taking torsion into account. We show that a space-time with torsion interacting with a Maxwell field by means of a Chern-Simons-like term is able to explain the optical activity in syncrotron radiation emitted by cosmological distant radio sources. Without specifying the source of the dilaton-gravity, we study the dilaton-solution. We analyse the physical implications of this result in the Jordan-Fierz frame. We also analyse the effects of the Lorentz breaking in the cosmic string formation process. We obtain the solution corresponding to a cosmic string in the presence of torsion by keeping track of the effects of the Chern-Simons coupling and calculate the charge induced on this cosmic string in this framework. We also show that the resulting charged cosmic string gives us important effects concerning the background radiation.The optical activity in this case is also worked out and discussed.

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