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The pressuron is a hypothetical scalar particle which couples to both gravity and matter theorised in 2013. Although originally postulated without self-interaction potential, the pressuron is also a dark energy candidate when it has such a potential. The pressuron takes its name from the fact that it decouples from matter in pressure-less regimes,〔 allowing the scalar-tensor theory of gravity involving it to pass solar system tests, as well as tests on the equivalence principle, even though it is fundamentally coupled to matter. Such a decoupling mechanism could explain why gravitation seems to be well described by general relativity at present epoch, while it could actually be more complex than that. Because of the way it couples to matter, the pressuron is a special case of the hypothetical string dilaton. Therefore, it is one of the possible solutions to the present non-observation of various signals coming from massless or light scalar fields that are generically predicted in string theory. == Mathematical formulation == The action of the scalar-tensor theory that involves the pressuron can be written as : where is the Ricci scalar constructed from the metric , is the metric determinant, , with the gravitational constant〔Note however that it is different from the effective constant measured with Cavendish-type experiments (see also Scalar-tensor theory)〕 and the velocity of light in vacuum, is the pressuron potential and is the matter Lagrangian〔See also Electroweak lagrangian and Quantum chromodynamics lagrangian〕 and represents the non-gravitational fields. The gravitational field equations therefore write〔 : and :. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pressuron」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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