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arxiv: 0907.5159 · v2 · submitted 2009-07-29 · ✦ hep-ph · astro-ph.CO· gr-qc· hep-th

CPT Violating Electrodynamics and Chern-Simons Modified Gravity

classification ✦ hep-ph astro-ph.COgr-qchep-th
keywords chern-simonsgravitytermelectrodynamicsfieldgravitationallorentzviolating
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The electrodynamics with a Chern-Simons term $p_{\mu}A_{\nu}\widetilde{F}^{\mu\nu}$ violates Lorentz and $CPT$ symmetries with a non-vanishing $p_{\mu}$. For a fixed vector $p_{\mu}$, in this paper we point out that the energy-momentum tensor of this theory coupled to the gravity minimally is symmetric but not divergence free, which consequently makes the gravitational field equation inconsistent. To preserve the consistency, we introduce a Chern-Simons term in the gravity sector with the coefficient determined by the Lorentz and $CPT$ violating term in the electromagnetic field. Further we study the phenomenologies of the model on the cosmic microwave background radiation and the relic gravitational waves.

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