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A rigorous \textit{ab initio} derivation of the (square of) Dirac's equation for a single particle with spin is presented. The general Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the particle expressed in terms of a background Weyl's conformal geometry is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Enrico Santamato

Recently, we have constructed the conformal gravity with metric and torsion, finding the gravitational field equations that give the conservation laws and trace condition; in the present paper we apply this theory to the case of the Dirac…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-11 Luca Fabbri

We give new solutions of the quantum conformal deformations of the full Maxwell equations in terms of deformations of the plane wave. We study the compatibility of these solutions with the conservation of the current. We also start the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-11-10 V. K. Dobrev , S. T. Petrov

This paper presents three aspects by which the Weyl geometric generalization of Riemannian geometry, and of Einstein gravity, sheds light on actual questions of physics and its philosophical reflection. After introducing the theory's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-28 Erhard Scholz

We make some remarks on the group of symmetries in gravity; we believe that K-theory and noncommutative geometry inescepably have to play an important role. Furthermore we make some comments and questions on the recent work of Connes and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 I. P. Zois

The status of multifractional theories is reviewed using comparative tables. Theoretical foundations, classical matter and gravity dynamics, cosmology and experimental constraints are summarized and the application of the multifractional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-16 Gianluca Calcagni

The gravitational effects in the relativistic quantum mechanics are investigated. The exact Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation is constructed for the Dirac particle coupled to the static spacetime metric. As a direct application, we analyze…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-17 Yuri N. Obukhov

We show how the quantum potential arises in various ways and trace its connection to quantum fluctuations and Fisher information along with its realization in terms of Weyl curvature. It is a quantization factor for certain classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Carroll

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

We give solutions of the q-deformed equations of quantum conformal Weyl gravity in terms of q-deformed plane waves.

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-03-04 V. K. Dobrev , S. G. Mihov

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 review some material connecting gravity and the quantum potential and provide a few new observations.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Carroll

On the basis of the Poincare-Weyl gauge theory of gravitation, a new conformal Weyl-Dirac theory of gravitation is proposed, which is a gravitational theory in Cartan-Weyl spacetime with the Dirac scalar field representing the dark matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-17 O. V. Babourova , B. N. Frolov , P. E. Kudlaev

In two dimensions a large class of gravitational systems including, e.g., $R^2$-gravity can be quantized exactly also when coupled dynamically to a Yang-Mills theory. Some previous considerations on the quantization of pure gravity theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-09 T. Strobl

We discuss the concepts of Weyl and Riemann frames in the context of metric theories of gravity and state the fact that they are completely equivalent as far as geodesic motion is concerned. We apply this result to conformally flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Romero , J. B. Fonseca-Neto , M. L. Pucheu

We consider the recently introduced mimetic gravity, which is a Weyl-symmetric extension of the General Relativity and which can play a role of an imperfect fluid-like Dark Matter with a small sound speed. In this paper we discuss in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-31 Katrin Hammer , Alexander Vikman

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

Lecture notes on selected topics in the theory of gravitation.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-16 Pietro Menotti

We consider the most general action for gravity which is quadratic in curvature. In this case first order and second order formalisms are not equivalent. This framework is a good candidate for a unitary and renormalizable theory of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-22 Enrique Alvarez , Jesus Anero , Sergio Gonzalez-Martin

The Poincare and Poincare-Weyl gauge theories of gravitation with Lagrangians quadratic on curvature and torsion in post-Riemannian spaces with the Dirac scalar field is discussed in a historical aspect. The various hypothesizes concerning…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-01 O. V. Babourova , B. N. Frolov , P. E. Kudlaev , E. V. Romanova