A broken gauge approach to gravitational mass and charge

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 991-1009

  Dereli, Tekin ^a,b   Tucker, Robin W ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Classical Theories of Gravity; Space Time Symmetries; Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044513811     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/03/041     Document Type: Article

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