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New Setting for Spontaneous Gauge Symmetry Breaking?

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Over half century ago Carl Brans participated in the construction of a viable deformation of the Einstein gravity theory. The suggestion involves expanding the tensor-based theory by a scalar field. But experimental support has not materialized. Nevertheless the model continues to generate interest and new research. The reasons for the current activity is described in this essay, which is dedicated to Carl Brans on his eightieth birthday.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported in part by U.S. Department of Energy, Grant No. DE-SC0010025.

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  1. Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, 02139, MA, USA

    Roman Jackiw

  2. Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA

    So-Young Pi

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    Torsten Asselmeyer-Maluga

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Jackiw, R., Pi, SY. (2016). New Setting for Spontaneous Gauge Symmetry Breaking?. In: Asselmeyer-Maluga, T. (eds) At the Frontier of Spacetime. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 183. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31299-6_8

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