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We derive a Weyl invariant equation for Gravity by gauging the global Weyl invariance of vacuum Einstein equations. The equation is linear in the curvature and a natural generalization of Einstein equations to Weyl geometry. The system has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-03 Máximo Bañados

This study employs the effective field theory approach to quantum gravity to investigate a non-Abelian gauge theory involving scalar particles coupled to gravity. The study demonstrates explicitly that the Slavnov-Taylor identities are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-14 Huan Souza , L. Ibiapina Bevilaqua , A. C. Lehum

The paper is devoted to some of the difficulties which the Wheeler - DeWitt quantum geometrodynamics encountered, in particular, a strong mathematical proof that this theory is gauge-invariant, the definition of the wave function of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-20 T. P. Shestakova

In a class of generalized Einstein's gravity theories we derive the equations and general asymptotic solutions describing the evolution of the perturbed universe in unified forms. Our gravity theory considers general couplings between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Hwang

It is believed that soon after the Planck time, Einstein's general relativity theory should be corrected to an effective quadratic theory. Numerical solutions for the anisotropic generalization of the Friedmann "flat" model $E^3$ for this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-02 Daniel Müller , Juliano A. de Deus

In this paper we show that the one-loop graviton self-energy contribution is ultraviolet finite, without introducing counterterms, and cutoff-free in the framework of causal perturbation theory. In addition, it satisfies the gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicola Grillo

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

A precise relation is established between the Stelle-West formulation of the Mac Dowell-Mansouri approach to a gauge theory of gravity and the approach based on a gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten term. In particular, it is shown that a consistent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Andres Anabalon

The quantum field theoretic description of general relativity is a modern approach to gravity where gravitational force is carried by spin-2 gravitons. In the classical limit of this theory, general relativity as described by the Einstein…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-20 Gustav Uhre Jakobsen

The gravity is classically formulated as the geometric curvature of the space-time in general relativity which is completely different from the other well-known physical forces. Since seeking a quantum framework for the gravity is a great…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-29 Cao H. Nam

In this paper we discuss the universality of the renormalization of the gauge coupling constant in the quantum electrodynamics coupled to the Einstein's gravity in the framework of effective field theory in an arbitrary gauge. We observe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-15 L. Ibiapina Bevilaqua , A. C. Lehum , Huan Souza

We discuss a possible framework for the construction of a quantum gravity theory where the principles of QFT and general relativity can coexist harmonically. Moreover, in order to fix the correct gauge group of the theory we study the most…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 R. F. Sobreiro , V. J. Vasquez Otoya

The analysis of a general multibody physical system governed by Einstein's equations in quite difficult, even if numerical methods (on a computer) are used. Some of the difficulties -- many coupled degrees of freedom, dynamic instability --…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 James A. Isenberg

In a previous study it was demonstrated that Dirac's relativistic quantum equation for free electrons (DRQM)can be obtained from Maxwell's classical electromagnetic field equations (MaxEq). This raises fundamental issues about the…

General Physics · Physics 2009-12-18 J. F. Geurdes

We formulate gauge theories on noncompact Lorentzian manifolds. For definiteness we choose an SO(1,4) gauge theory -- the isometry group of the five dimensional Minkowski space. We make use of the natural inner product to construct the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-01 Giovanni Mistretta , Tomislav Prokopec

Recently, a gauge theory of unified gravity [Rep. Prog. Phys. 88, 057802 (2025)] has been developed to extend the Standard Model to include gravity. Here we present unified gravity using the ordinary four-vector and tensor field notation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-12 Mikko Partanen , Jukka Tulkki

We construct a class of Einstein-vector theories where the vector field couples bilinearly to the curvature polynomials of arbitrary order in such a way that only Riemann tensor rather than its derivative enters the equations of motion. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Wei-Jian Geng , H. Lu

Gravity is perturbatively renormalizable for the physical states which can be conveniently defined via foliation-based quantization. In recent sequels, one-loop analysis was explicitly carried out for Einstein-scalar and Einstein-Maxwell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-12 I. Y. Park

In the present work, we extend and generalize our previous work regarding the scale dependence applied to black holes in the presence of non-linear electrodynamics [1]. The starting point for this study is the Einstein-power-Maxwell theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-05 Angel Rincon , Ernesto Contreras , Pedro Bargueño , Benjamin Koch , Grigoris Panotopoulos

$[n+1]$-dimensional ($n\geq 3$) smooth Einsteinian spaces of Euclidean and Lorentzian signature are considered. The base manifold $M$ is supposed to be smoothly foliated by a two-parameter family of codimension-two-surfaces which are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-16 István Rácz