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Rearrangement of Vacuum State in Gravitation
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Gravity–General gauge principle ; Spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetry ; nner distortion ofspacetime
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We address the processes of rearrangement of vacuum state and spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking in gravity. This is achieved by an extension of ’standard gauge principle’ to ’general gauge principle’ (GGP). The GGP accounts for the gravity generated by hidden local internal symmetries implemented on ’maximally symmetric’ (MS) auxiliary space. In doing this, we extend the curvature to a general ’distortion’ of the space-time continuum as the theory of spontaneous breaking of ’distortion’ symmetry. We have to implement the hidden gauge symmetry of two-parameter abelian group Uloc = U(1)Y × U(1) on the extended 12-dimensional MS-space, with the group elements of exp [i Y 2 θY (ζ)] of U(1)Y and exp [iT 3 θ3(ζ)] of U(1), respectively. This group has two generators, the hypercharge Y and the third component T3 of isospin. The neutral complex Higgs scalar breaks the vacuum symmetry, leaving the ’gravitation’ subgroup intact. The massive field component of the so-called ’inner distortion’ (ID) causes the shift of zero point energy and, thus, simultaneously with the strong gravity, a significant change in the properties of the space-time continuum has occurred at huge energies. This leads to the ’matter-toproto- matter’ phase transition of second kind.