Taming galileons in curved spacetime

2017/01/31 by Rabin Banerjee, Pradip Mukherjee
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Covariant transformation #Curved space #Equations of motion #Geometry #Mathematical physics #Mechanics #Motion (physics) #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Order (exchange) #Physics #Poincaré conjecture #Quantum mechanics #Rotational symmetry #Space (punctuation) #Space time #Spacetime #Symmetry (geometry) #Theoretical physics #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1361-6382/aa9355

published as Class. Quantum Grav. 34 (2017) 235005 · 13 pages, no figure, minor addition, journal version. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0912.4816

openalex publication_date 2017/10/13 · arxiv created 2017/11/17 · arxiv updated 2017/12/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Abstract Localising galileon symmetry along with Poincaré symmetry, we have found a version of the galileon model coupled with curved spacetime which retains the internal galileon symmetry in covariant form. Also, the model has second order equations of motion.

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