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The Weyl geometry promises potential applications in gravity and quantum mechanics. We study the relationships between the Weyl geometry, quantum entropy and quantum entanglement based on the Weyl geometry endowing the Euclidean metric. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-21 Shi-Dong Liang , Wenjing Huang

We study Vaidya-type solutions in Weyl conformal gravity (WCG) using Eddington--Finkelstein-like coordinates. Our considerations focus on spherical as well as hyperbolic and planar symmetries. In particular, we find all vacuum dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-10 Petr Jizba , Tereza Lehečková

Instead of the scalar "dilaton" field that is usually adopted to construct conformally invariant Lagrangians for gravitation, we here propose a hybrid construction, involving both a complex dilaton scalar and a Weyl gauge-vector, in accord…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-08 Hans C. Ohanian

The well-noted correspondence between gravitation and electrodynamics emphasizes the importance of the Lanczos tensor -- the potential of the Weyl tensor -- which is an inherent structural element of any metric theory of gravity formulated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-20 Ram Gopal Vishwakarma

We argue that conformal invariance in flat spacetime implies Weyl invariance in a general curved background metric for all unitary theories in spacetime dimensions $d \leq 10$. We also study possible curvature corrections to the Weyl…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Kara Farnsworth , Markus A. Luty , Valentina Prilepina

We explore some of the gravitational features of a uniform ring both in the Newtonian potential theory and in General Relativity. We use a spacetime associated to a Weyl static solution of the vacuum Einstein's equations with ring like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-13 L. A. D'Afonseca , P. S. Letelier , S. R. Oliveira

In view of Ehlers-Pirani-Schild formalism, since 1972 Weyl geometries should be considered to be the most appropriate and complete framework to represent (relativistic) gravitational fields. We shall here show that in any given Lorentzian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-21 L. Fatibene , M. Francaviglia

We discuss qualitative features of the conformal relation between certain classes of gravity theories and general relativity, common to different themes such as $f(R)$, Brans-Dicke-type, and string theories. We focus primarily on the frame…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-05 Spiros Cotsakis , Ifigeneia Klaoudatou , Georgios Kolionis , John Miritzis , Dimitrios Trachilis

Conformal Gravity (CG) is a Weyl--invariant metric theory whose action is free from divergences for generic asymptotically anti-de Sitter spaces. For Neumann boundary conditions, it reduces to renormalized Einstein--AdS gravity at tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-18 Giorgos Anastasiou , Martin Bravo , Rodrigo Olea

The introduction of General Relativity (GR) in 1915 revolutionized our understanding of gravity, but over time, its limitations in explaining phenomena like dark energy, dark matter, and quantum gravity have motivated alternative theories.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 N. S. Kavya

It was recently found that, after performing a Weyl conformal transformation, the familiar analogy between black hole mechanics and black hole thermodynamics becomes ambiguous. It was argued that this fact can be traced back to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-16 Fayçal Hammad , Daniel Dijamco

We point out that the Cartan geometry known as the second-order conformal structure provides a natural differential geometric framework underlying gauge theories of conformal gravity. We are concerned by two theories: the first one will be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-04 Jeremy Attard , Jordan François , Serge Lazzarini

Motivated by the rich geometry of conformal Riemannian manifolds and by the recent development of geometries modeled on homogeneous spaces $G/P$ with $G$ semisimple and $P$ parabolic, Weyl structures and preferred connections are introduced…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andreas Cap , Jan Slovak

In the standard Einstein's theory the exterior gravitational field of any static and axially symmetric stellar object can be described by means of a single function from which we obtain a metric into a four-dimensional space-time. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-19 J. L. Hernández-Pastora

Ehlers, Pirani, and Schild argued that measurements of null and timelike geodesics yield Weyl and projective connections, respectively, with compatibility in the lightlike limit giving an integrable Weyl connection. Their conclusions hold…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-14 James T. Wheeler

A class of theories of gravitation that naturally incorporates preferred frames of reference is presented. The underlying space-time geometry consists of a partial parallelization of space-time and has properties of Riemann-Cartan as well…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 C. Kohler

The approach to incorporate quantum effects in gravity by replacing free particle geodesics with Bohmian non-geodesic trajectories has an equivalent description in terms of a conformally related geometry, where the motion is force free,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-10 Sandip Chowdhury , Kunal Pal , Kuntal Pal , Tapobrata Sarkar

We consider the effects of Weyl geometry on the propagation of electromagnetic waves and on the gravitational spin Hall effect of light. It is usually assumed that in vacuum the electromagnetic waves propagate along null geodesics, a result…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-12 Marius A. Oancea , Tiberiu Harko

Just after Weyl's paper (Weyl in Gravitation und Elektrizit\"at, Sitzungsber. Preuss. Akad., Berlin, 1918) Einstein claimed that a gravity model written in a spacetime geometry with non-metricity suffers from a phenomenon, the so-called…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-18 Caglar Pala , Ozcan Sert , Muzaffer Adak

The algebra of linear and quadratic functions of basic observables on the phase space of either the free particle or the harmonic oscillator possesses a finite-dimensional anomaly. The quantization of these systems outside the critical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Calixto , V. Aldaya , J. Guerrero