PIRSA:14050111 Conference

DOI10.48660/14050111

Conference/School: Low Energy Challenges for High Energy Physicists

Endlich, S. (2014). Spontaneous symmetry breaking, gravity, and spinning objects. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/14050111

Endlich, Solomon. Spontaneous symmetry breaking, gravity, and spinning objects. Perimeter Institute, May. 29, 2014, https://pirsa.org/14050111 

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  url = {https://pirsa.org/14050111},
  author = {Endlich, Solomon},
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  language = {en},
  title = {Spontaneous symmetry breaking, gravity, and spinning objects},
  publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
  year = {2014},
  month = {may},
  note = {PIRSA:14050111 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
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Abstract

Space-time symmetries are a crucial ingredient of any theoretical model in physics. Unlike internal symmetries, which may or may not be gauged and/or spontaneously broken, space-time symmetries do not admit any ambiguity: they are gauged by gravity, and any conceivable physical system (other than the vacuum) is bound to break at least some of them. Motivated by this observation, I will sketch how to couple gravity with the Goldstone fields that non-linearly realize spontaneously broken space-time symmetries by weakly gauging the Poincare symmetry group in the context of the coset construction. To illustrate the power of this perspective I will build a low energy effective action that describes spinning objects coupled to gravity and describe its interpretation.

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