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General Relativity can be formulated in terms of a spatially Weyl invariant gauge theory called Shape Dynamics. Using this formulation, we establish a "bulk/bulk" duality between gravity and a Weyl invariant theory on spacelike Cauchy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-23 Henrique Gomes , Sean Gryb , Tim Koslowski , Flavio Mercati

A gauge and diffeomorphism invariant theory in (2+1)-dimensions is presented in both first and second order Lagrangian form as well as in a Hamiltonian form. For gauge group $SO(1,2)$, the theory is shown to describe ordinary Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Peter Peldan

We construct a unified (quantum) description, by the gauge principle, of gravity and Standard Model (SM), that generalises the Dirac-Born-Infeld action to the SM and Weyl geometry, hereafter called Weyl-Dirac-Born-Infeld action (WDBI). The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-12 D. M. Ghilencea

The wave equation and equations of covariantly-constant vector fields (CCVF) in spaces with Weyl nonmetricity turn out to possess, in addition to the canonical conformal-gauge, a gauge invariance of another type. On a Minkowski metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-25 Vladimir V. Kassandrov , Joseph A. Rizcallah

"Physical theories of fundamental significance tend to be gauge theories. These are theories in which the physical system being dealt with is described by more variables than there are physically independent degree of freedom. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Germain Rousseaux

Standard practice attempts to remove coordinate influence in physics through the use of invariant equations. Trans-coordinate physics proceeds differently by not introducing space-time coordinates in the first place. Differentials taken…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Richard A. Mould

We put forward the idea that in addition to diffeomorphism invariance of general relativity (GR) the gravitational interaction is invariant under arbitrary scale-deformations of the metric field. In addition, we assume that the scaling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-19 Meir Shimon

It is shown that the recently geometric formulation of quantum mechanics implies the use of Weyl geometry. It is discussed that the natural framework for both gravity and quantum is Weyl geometry. At the end a Weyl invariant theory is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Fatimah Shojai , Ali Shojai

The diffeomorphism covariance is a fundamental property of General Relativity which leads to the fact that the same solution of Einstein equation can be given in completely distinct forms in different coordinate systems. Distinguishing or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Pujian Mao

In this manuscript, a conformally invariant theory of gravitation in the context of metric measure space is studied. The proposed action is invariant under both diffeomorphism and conformal transformations. Using the variational method, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-06 Nafiseh Rahmanpour , Hossein Shojaie

Through defining irreducible loop integrals (ILIs), a set of consistency conditions for the regularized (quadratically and logarithmically) divergent ILIs are obtained to maintain the generalized Ward identities of gauge invariance in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Yue-Liang Wu

We show that in a quadratic gravity based on Weyl's conformal geometry, the Planck mass scale can be generated from quantum effects of the gravitational field and the Weyl gauge field via the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism where a local scale…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-30 Ichiro Oda

Classically general covariance is found from the idea that a vector is a physical quantity which exists independently of choice of coordinate system and is unchanged by a change of coordinate system. It is often assumed that there exists…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles Francis

The background field method is used to linearize the Weyl invariant scalar-tensor gravity, coupled with a Stueckelberg field. For a generic background metric, this action is found to be not invariant, under both diffeomorphism and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-30 K. Abhinav , A. Shukla , P. K. Panigrahi

For more than hundred years, various concepts were developed to understand the fields of geometric objects and invariant differential operators between them for conformal Riemannian and projective geometries. More recently, several general…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Andreas Cap , Jan Slovak

When the full connection of Weyl conformal gravity is varied instead of just the metric, the resulting vacuum field equations reduce to the vacuum Einstein equation, up to the choice of local units, if and only if the torsion vanishes. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-30 James T. Wheeler

A physical theory of the world is presented under the unifying principle that all of nature is laid out before us and experienced through the passage of time. The one-dimensional progression in time is opened out into a multi-dimensional…

General Physics · Physics 2016-07-01 David J. Jackson

Scale invariance is considered in the context of a gravitational theory where the action, in the first order formalism, is of the form S = \int L_{1} \Phi d^4x + \int L_{2}\sqrt{-g}d^4x where \Phi is a density built out of degrees of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Guendelman , A. B. Kaganovich

Just like the vector bosons in Abelian and non-Abelian gauge theories, gravitons can attain mass by spontaneous local symmetry breaking. The question is whether this can happen in a Lorentz-invariant way. We consider the use of four scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-01-07 Gerard 't Hooft

Weyl's conformal theory of gravity is an extension of Einstein's theory of general relativity which associates metrics with 1-forms . In the case of locally integrable (closed non-exact) 1-forms the spacetime manifolds are no more simply…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-09 Michel Duneau