Basics of the pressuron

Abstract

The pressuron is a specific case of a dilaton-like field that leads to a decoupling of the scalar-field in the field equation for pressureless fluids. Hence, the pressuron recovers general relativity in the limit of weak pressure. Here we review its basics.

4 pages, proceedings of the 50th Rencontres de Moriond, Gravitation Session: "100 years after GR", 21-28 March 2015

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