Coupling Shape Dynamics to Matter Gives Spacetime
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Abstract: (arXiv)
Shape Dynamics is a metric theory of pure gravity, equivalent to General Relativity, but formulated as a gauge theory of spatial diffeomporphisms and local spatial conformal transformations. In this paper we extend the construction of Shape Dynamics form pure gravity to gravity-matter systems and find that there is no obstruction for the coupling of gravity to standard matter. We use the matter gravity system to construct a clock and rod model for Shape Dynamics which allows us to recover a spacetime interpretation of Shape Dynamics trajectories.Note:
- 10 pages, LaTeX, no figures
- Canonical GR
- ADM
- Conformal symmetry
- Modified gravity
- matter: coupling
- gravitation: model
- gauge field theory
- diffeomorphism
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