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We illustrate how non-relativistic quantum mechanics may be recovered from a dynamical Weyl geometry on configuration space and an `ensemble' of trajectories (or `worlds'). The theory, which is free of a physical wavefunction, is presented…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-03 Philipp Roser

In this paper we explore the physical consequences of assuming Weyl invariance of the laws of gravity from the classical standpoint exclusively. Actual Weyl invariance requires to replace the underlying Riemannian geometrical structure of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-20 Israel Quiros

The gravitational interaction, as described by the Einstein-Cartan theory, is shown to emerge as the by-product of the spontaneous symmetry breaking of a gauge symmetry in a pre-geometric four-dimensional spacetime. Starting from a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-15 Andrea Addazi , Salvatore Capozziello , Antonino Marciano , Giuseppe Meluccio

We consider an $f(Q,T)$ type gravity model in which the scalar non-metricity $Q_{\alpha \mu \nu}$ of the space-time is expressed in its standard Weyl form, and it is fully determined by a vector field $w_{\mu}$. The field equations of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-18 Yixin Xu , Tiberiu Harko , Shahab Shahidi , Shi-Dong Liang

Gauge freedom in quantum particle physics is shown to arise in a natural way from the geometry of two-spinors (Weyl spinors). Various related mathematical notions are reviewed, and a special ansatz of the kind "the system defines the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 Daniel Canarutto

It is argued that static electric or magnetic fields induce Weyl-Majumdar-Papapetrou solutions for the metric of spacetime. Their gravitational acceleration includes a term many orders of magnitude stronger than usual perturbative terms. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. V. Ivanov

We study various classical aspects of the Weyl transverse (WTDiff) gravity in a general space-time dimension. First of all, we clarify a classical equivalence among three kinds of gravitational theories, those are, the conformally-invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Ichiro Oda

Newtonian gravity can be regarded as a hypothetic-deductive system where the inverse square law is the starting point from which gravitational phenomena are deduced. This operational form of presenting gravity endorses problem solving and…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Joao A M Pereira

We review, in a historical perspective, developments in physics which led to the emergence of unifying ideas and theories. Some attention is paid to the theoretical programme that started in the second decade of the XXth century and whose…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2010-07-16 Orfeu Bertolami

Following Mach's definition of mass and force in terms of space time measurement we build the conceptual structure of classical mechanics and show that it is remarkably similar to the results of Carnot and Clausius in thermodynamics. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-01 Saurav Samanta

The only allowed source of the gravitational field in the unimodular theory, invariant under area-preserving (transverse) diffeomorphisms as well as Weyl transformations, is just the traceless piece of the energy-momentum tensor. This fact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Enrique Álvarez , Mario Herrero-Valea

In this paper we consider an extended Gauss-Bonnet gravity theory in arbitrary dimensions and in a space provided with a Weyl connection, which is torsionless but not metric-compatible, the non-metricity tensor being determined by a vector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Tomi S. Koivisto

A crucial property of Weyl gravity is its conformal invariance. It is shown how this gauge symmetry is exactly reflected by the two constraints in the Hamiltonian framework. Since the spatial 3-metric is one of the configuration variables,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-26 Qian Chen , Yongge Ma

In the first attempt to introduce gauge theories in physics, Hermann Weyl, around the 1920s, proposed certain scale transformations to be a fundamental symmetry of nature. Despite the intense use of Weyl symmetry that has been made over the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-10 Alfredo Iorio

We find the Weyl law followed by the eigenvalues of contractive maps. An important property is that it is mainly insensitive to the dimension of the corresponding invariant classical set, the strange attractor. The usual explanation for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 María E. Spina , Alejandro M. F. Rivas , Gabriel G. Carlo

There are well-known problems associated with the idea of (local) gravitational energy in general relativity. We offer a new perspective on those problems by comparison with Newtonian gravitation, and particularly geometrized Newtonian…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Neil Dewar , James Owen Weatherall

We present a novel derivation of the spacetime metric generated by matter, without invoking Einstein's field equations. For static sources, the metric arises from a relativistic formulation of D'Alembert's principle, where the inertial…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Jaume de Haro , Emilio Elizalde

We investigated the possibility of construction the homogeneous and isotropic cosmological solutions in Weyl geometry. We derived the self-consistency condition which ensures the conformal invariance of the complete set of equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-01 Victor A. Berezin , Vyacheslav I. Dokuchaev , Yury N. Eroshenko , Alexey L. Smirnov

In this work we find analytical solutions to the null geodesics around a black hole in the conformal Weyl gravity. Exact expressions for the horizons are found, and they depend on the cosmological constant and the coupling constants of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-26 J. R. Villanueva , Marco Olivares

Electromagnetism is the energy originating from an electric charge. Our purpose is to enlarge Maxwell. Include the charge transfer phenomenology. A four bosons electromagnetism is derived. An EM completeness is achieved. The charge's set…

General Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 R. Doria , L. S. Mendes