Scale-invariant Schrödinger geometry in symmetric teleparallel gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2026-07-21 v1
Abstract
We construct a locally scale-invariant formulation of Schr\"{o}dinger geometry in symmetric teleparallel gravity. The unique scale transformation preserving autoparallelism, torsionlessness and the Schr\"{o}dinger affine structure is first identified, from which a quadratic scale-invariant action is obtained. Using the Palatini formalism, we show that the conditions required for scale invariance are exactly those ensuring that the affine connection is dynamically reduced to the Schr\"{o}dinger form. Our results establish a direct correspondence between local scale symmetry and length-preserving affine geometry, providing a new geometric framework for scale-invariant metric-affine gravity.
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@article{arxiv.2607.18657,
title = {Scale-invariant Schrödinger geometry in symmetric teleparallel gravity},
author = {Wei-Zhi Liu and Jing-Ying Wang and Shi-Dong Liang and Hong-Hao Zhang and Tiberiu Harko and Lei Ming},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.18657},
year = {2026}
}
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