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We study the evolution of the Weyl curvature invariant in all spatially homogeneous universe models containing a non-tilted gamma-law perfect fluid. We investigate all the Bianchi and Thurston type universe models and calculate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 John D. Barrow , Sigbjorn Hervik

In this paper, we introduce and motivate the studies of Quantum Weyl Gravity (also known as Conformal Gravity). We discuss some appealing features of this theory both on classical and quantum level. The construction of the quantum theory is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-16 Lesław Rachwał , Stefano Giaccari

We consider a Weyl-invariant formulation of gravity with a cosmological constant in d-dimensional spacetime and show that near two dimensions the classical action reduces to the timelike Liouville action. We show that the renormalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-17 Teresa Bautista , Atish Dabholkar

Over the last two years, the canonical approach to quantum gravity based on connections and triads has been put on a firm mathematical footing through the development and application of a new functional calculus on the space of gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Abhay Ashtekar

We examine the growth of the Weyl curvature in two examples of naked singularity formation in spherical gravitational collapse - dust and the Vaidya spacetime. We find that the Weyl scalar diverges along outgoing radial null geodesics as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sukratu Barve , T. P. Singh

We present a detailed analysis of the 3+1-split formalism of gravity in the presence of a cosmological constant. The formalism helps revealing the intimate connection between holography and the initial value formulation of gravity. We show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-09 Diego S. Mansi , Anastasios C. Petkou , Giovanni Tagliabue

We review recent developments and applications of the classification of the Weyl tensor in higher dimensional Lorentzian geometries. First, we discuss the general setup, i.e. main definitions and methods for the classification, some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-17 Marcello Ortaggio , Vojtech Pravda , Alena Pravdova

The on shell equivalence of first order and second order formalisms for the Einstein-Hilbert action does not hold for those actions quadratic in curvature. It would seem that by considering the connection and the metric as independent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-15 Enrique Alvarez , Sergio Gonzalez-Martin

Already the simplest examples of Weyl geometry, the static space-time models of general relativity modified by an additional time-homogeneous Weylian length connection lead to beautiful cosmological models (Weyl universes) . The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Erhard Scholz

In this paper, we present some new results on non-Riemannian geometry, more specifically, asymmetric connections and Weyl's geometry. For asymmetric connections, we show that a projective change in the symmetric part generates a vector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-03 A. C. V. V. de Siqueira

We study the Einstein-aether theory in Weyl integrable geometry. The scalar field which defines the Weyl affine connection is introduced in the gravitational field equation. We end up with an Einstein-aether scalar field model where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-30 Andronikos Paliathanasis , Genly Leon , John D. Barrow

We consider a gravitational model in a Weyl-Cartan space-time, in which the Weitzenb\"{o}ck condition of the vanishing of the sum of the curvature and torsion scalar is also imposed. Moreover, a kinetic term for the torsion is also included…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-13 Zahra Haghani , Tiberiu Harko , Hamid Reza Sepangi , Shahab Shahidi

The Weyl gravity appears to be a very peculiar theory. The contribution of the Weyl linear parameter to the effective geodesic potential is opposite for massive and nonmassive geodesics. However, photon geodesics do not depend on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Pireaux

A classical general relativistic theory possessing magnetic currents, as well electric ones and admitting massive photons was built up. As the geometric basis serves a space with Weylian non-metricity and torsion. The theory is coordinate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-12-27 Mark Israelit

A scale invariant, Weyl geometric, Lagrangian approach to cosmology is explored, with a a scalar field phi of (scale) weight -1 as a crucial ingredient besides classical matter \cite{Tann:Diss,Drechsler:Higgs}. For a particularly simple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-18 Erhard Scholz

We consider scalar-tensor theories of gravity defined in Weyl integrable space-time and show that in the ADM formalism Weyl transformations corresponding to change of frames induce canonical transformations between different representations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-14 A. B. Barreto , M. L. Pucheu , C. Romero

We investigate static cylindrically symmetric vacuum solutions in Weyl coordinates in the framework of f(T) theories of gravity, where T is the torsion scalar. The set of modified Einstein equations is presented and the fourth coming…

General Physics · Physics 2013-01-15 M. J. S. Houndjo , D. Momeni , R. Myrzakulov

It is shown that gravitation naturally emerges from the standard model of particle physics if local scale invariance is imposed in the context of a single conformal (Weyl-symmetric) theory. Gravitation is then conformally-related to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-15 Meir Shimon

In a previous paper, we presented new results on non-Riemannian geometry. For an asymmetric connection, we showed that a projective change in the symmetric part generates a vector field that is not arbitrary, but is the gradient of a…

General Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 A. C. V. V. de Siqueira

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