# dilaton

> scalar field that couples to gravity in a peculiar way, such that its acquiring a vacuum expectation value would effectively rescale (dilate) the metric

**Wikidata**: [Q1193090](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1193090)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilaton)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/dilaton


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)