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The old Weyl's idea of scale recalibration freedom and the Infeld and van der Waerden (IW) ideas concerning geometrical interpretation of the natural spinor phase gauge symmetry are discussed in the context of moderm models of fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-20 Marek Pawlowski

Some of the simplest modifications to general relativity involve the coupling of additional scalar fields to the scalar curvature. By making a Weyl rescaling of the metric, these theories can be mapped to Einstein gravity with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-14 Clare Burrage , Christian Käding , Peter Millington , Jiří Minář

A local UV cutoff $\Lambda(x)$ transforming under Weyl rescalings allows to construct Weyl invariant kinetic terms for scalar fields including Wilsonian cutoff functions. First we consider scalar fields in curved space-time with local bare…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-02 Ulrich Ellwanger

A very general quantum field theory, which is not even assumed to be Lorentz invariant, is studied in the limit of very low energy excitations. Fermion and Boson field theories are considered in parallel. Remarkably, in both cases it is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. D. Froggatt , H. B. Nielsen

We demonstrate that the combination of the ideas of unimodular gravity, scale invariance, and the existence of an exactly massless dilaton leads to the evolution of the universe supported by present observations: inflation in the past,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-16 Mikhail Shaposhnikov , Daniel Zenhausern

The perfect dilaton-spin fluid (as a model of the dilaton matter, the particles of which are endowed with intrinsic spin and dilaton charge) is considered as the source of the gravitational field in a Weyl-Cartan spacetime. The variational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Olga V. Babourova , Boris N. Frolov

Weyl consistency conditions are a powerful tool to study the irreversibility properties of the renormalization group. We apply this formalism to non-relativistic theories in 2 spatial dimensions with boost invariance and dynamical exponent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Roberto Auzzi , Stefano Baiguera , Francesco Filippini , Giuseppe Nardelli

Starting from Maxwell-Weyl algebra we found the transformation rules for generalized space-time coordinates and the differential realization of corresponding generators. By treating local gauge invariance of Maxwell-Weyl group, we presented…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-04 O. Cebecioğlu , S. Kibaroğlu

We present a simple, systematic and practical method to construct conformally invariant equations in arbitrary Riemann spaces. This method that we call "Weyl-to-Riemann" is based on two features of Weyl geometry. i) A Weyl space is defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-06 Sofiane Faci

The most general lagrangian describing spin 2 particles in flat spacetime and containing operators up to (mass) dimension 6 is carefully analyzed, determining the precise conditions for it to be invariant under linearized (transverse)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Enrique Alvarez , Jesus Anero , Raquel Santos-Garcia

The theme of this work is that the theory of charged particles in a uniform magnetic field can be generalized to a large class of operators if one uses an extended a class of Weyl operators which we call "Landau--Weyl pseudodifferential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-10-22 Maurice de Gosson , Franz Luef

An Abelian gauge theory describing dynamics of massive spin one bosons is constructed. This is achieved by appending to the Maxwell action, a gauge invariant mass term. The theory is quantised in temporal as well as Lorentz gauge, and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Vivek M. Vyas , V. Srinivasan

Motivated by recent works on the origin of inertial mass, we revisit the relationship between the mass of charged particles and zero-point electromagnetic fields. To this end we first introduce a simple model comprising a scalar field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Giovanni Modanese

In this paper a Weyl geometric scalar tensor theory of gravity with scalar field $\Phi$ and scale invariant cubic ("aquadratic") kinetic Lagrangian is introduced. Einstein gauge (comparable to Einstein frame in Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory) is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-09 Erhard Scholz

We propose a novel, higher-derivative, Weyl-invariant and generally-covariant theory for the cosmological constant. This theory is a mimetic construction with gauge fields playing the role of dynamical variables. These fields compose the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-10 Katrin Hammer , Pavel Jirousek , Alexander Vikman

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

The unified theory of string and two-dimensional quantum gravity is considered. The action for two-dimensional gravity is choosen in a well-known induced form and thus gravity posesses it's oun nontrivial dynamics even on the classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 I. L. Buchbinder , I. L. Shapiro , A. G. Sibiryakov

The paper deals with the Weyl equation which is the massless Dirac equation. We study the Weyl equation in the stationary setting, i.e. when the spinor field oscillates harmonically in time. We suggest a new geometric interpretation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Olga Chervova , Dmitri Vassiliev

We consider cosmological implications of the Weyl geometric gravity theory. The basic action of the model is obtained from the simplest conformally invariant gravitational action, constructed, in Weyl geometry, from the square of the Weyl…

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

The Weyl double copy formalism, which relates the Weyl spinor with the square of the field strength, is studied in the context of Hassan-Rosen bigravity for stationary and time-dependent solutions. We consider the dyonic Kerr-Newman-(A)dS…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-03 Hugo García-Compeán , César I. Ramos