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Weak field approximate solutions in the Lambda-->0 limit of a model of de Sitter gravity have been presented in the static and spherically symmetric case. Although the model looks different from general relativity, among those solutions,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-19 Jia-An Lu , Chao-Guang Huang

Light deflection offers an unbiased test of Weyl's gravity since no assumption on the conformal factor needs to be made. In this second paper of our series ``Light deflection in Weyl gravity'', we analyze the constraints imposed by light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Pireaux

Here we follow the mainstream of thinking about physical equivalence of different representations of a theory, regarded as the consequence of invariance of the laws of physics -- represented by an action principle and the derived motion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Israel Quiros , Roberto De Arcia

We propose a model describing Einstein gravity coupled to a scalar field with an exponential potential. We show that the weak-field limit of the model has static solutions given by a gravitational potential behaving for large distances as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Mariano Cadoni

It was argued recently that conformal invariance in flat spacetime implies Weyl invariance in a general curved background for unitary theories and possible anomalies in the Weyl variation of scalar operators are identified. We argue that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Feng Wu

We find the linearized gravitational field of a static spherically symmetric mass distribution in massive conformal gravity and test it with some solar system experiments. The result is that the theory agrees with the general relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-05 F. F. Faria

We review recent developments in physical implications of Weyl conformal geometry. The associated Weyl quadratic gravity action is a gauge theory of the Weyl group of dilatations and Poincar\'e symmetry. Weyl conformal geometry is defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-05 D. M. Ghilencea

Despite the fact that General Relativity (GR) has been very successful, many alternative theories of gravity have attracted the attention of a significant number of theoretical physicists. Among these theories, we have theories with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-14 J. B. Formiga

We analyze gravitational theories with quadratic curvature terms, including the case of conformally invariant Weyl gravity, motivated by the intention to find a renormalizable theory of gravity in the ultraviolet region, yet yielding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-18 Josef Klusoň , Markku Oksanen , Anca Tureanu

It is shown that in a quadratic gravity based on Weyl's conformal geometry, not only the Einstein-Hilbert action emerges but also a Weyl gauge field becomes massive in the Weyl gauge condition, $\tilde R = k$, for a Weyl gauge symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-04 Ichiro Oda

We obtain exact black hole solutions for static and spherically symmetric sources in a Weyl conformal gauge theory of gravity. We consider a quadratic gravitational action built from the Weyl tensor within a dilation geometry. In a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-29 Leandro A. Lessa , Caio F. B. Macedo , Manoel M. Ferreira

A systematic study of the Weyl-type / Yang-Mills-type action possessing local conformal invariance and quadratic curvature is undertaken. The dynamical breaking of this conformal invariance / scale invariance induces general relativity (GR)…

General Physics · Physics 2016-09-01 O. F. Akinto , Farida Tahir

We compute the evolution of cosmological perturbations in a recently proposed Weyl-symmetric theory of two scalar fields with oppositely-signed conformal couplings to Einstein gravity. It is motivated from the minimal conformal extension of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-08 Marius Oltean , Robert Brandenberger

We investigate the possibility that the observed behavior of test particles outside galaxies, which is usually explained by assuming the existence of dark matter, is the result of the dynamical evolution of particles in a Weyl type…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-18 Piyabut Burikham , Tiberiu Harko , Kulapant Pimsamarn , Shahab Shahidi

It is shown that in the weak field approximation solutions of Brans-Dicke equations are simply related to the solutions of General Relativity equations for the same matter distribution. A simple method is developed which permits to obtain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Barros , C. Romero

We derive a Weyl invariant equation for Gravity by gauging the global Weyl invariance of vacuum Einstein equations. The equation is linear in the curvature and a natural generalization of Einstein equations to Weyl geometry. The system has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-03 Máximo Bañados

We study Weyl conformal geometry as a general gauge theory of the Weyl group (of Poincar\'e and dilatations symmetries) in a manifestly Weyl gauge covariant formalism in which this geometry is automatically metric and physically relevant.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-31 C. Condeescu , D. M. Ghilencea , A. Micu

We consider conformal gravity as a gauge natural theory. We study its conservation laws and superpotentials. We also consider the Mannheim and Kazanas spherically symmetric vacuum solution and discuss conserved quantities associated to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-10 M. Campigotto , L. Fatibene

Here we give a more detailed account of the part of the conference report that was devoted to reinterpreting the Einstein `unified models of gravity and electromagnetism' (1923) as the unified theory of dark energy (cosmological constant)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-04 A. T. Filippov

We investigate the cosmological applications of a bi-scalar modified gravity that exhibits partial conformal invariance, which could become full conformal invariance in the absence of the usual Einstein-Hilbert term and introducing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-27 Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Minas Tsoukalas