Palatini quadratic gravity: spontaneous breaking of gauged scale symmetry and inflation
Abstract We study quadratic gravity $$R^2+R_{[\mu \nu ]}^2$$ R 2 + R [ μ ν ] 2 in the Palatini formalism where the connection and the metric are independent. This action has a gauged scale symmetry (also known as Weyl gauge symmetry) of Weyl gauge field $$v_\mu = (\tilde{\Gamma }_\mu -\Gamma _\mu )/...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2020-12-01
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| Series: | European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-08722-0 |