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arxiv: 1404.7503 · v1 · pith:D4HNTYG2new · submitted 2014-04-29 · ✦ hep-th · astro-ph.CO· gr-qc

Spontaneous "Scalar-Vector Galileons" from "Weyl bi-Connection" model

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Weyl bi-connection model manifests a natural framework to automatically produce the Galileon structure. It is shown that this framework can explain scalar Galileon, vector Galileon as well as their interactions by generalizing the Weyl non-metricity. So it can be interpreted as a geometrical realization for Galileons. The non-metricity part enjoys a $U(1)$ gauge invariance. The result is interestingly non-trivial since the Galileon structure appears spontaneously and not by demanding the absence of the Ostrogradsky ghost. This fact suggests a possible deeper conceptual relation between Weyl bi-connection model and the absence of Ostrogradsky ghost.

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