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Charge conservation and Equivalence principle

2001/05/07 by Susana J. Landau, Landau, Susana J., Pablo D. Sisterna +5
Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #International Science and Diplomacy #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0105025

8 pages

arxiv created 2001/05/07 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

The THεμ formalism was developed to study nonmetric theories of gravitation. In this letter we show that theories that violate Local Lorentz Invariance (LLI) or Local Position Invariance (LPI) also violate charge conservation. Using upper bounds on this violation we can put very stringent limits to violations of Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP). These limits, in turn, severely restrict string-based models of low energy physics.

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