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We obtain exact black hole solutions for static and spherically symmetric sources in a Weyl conformal gauge theory of gravity. We consider a quadratic gravitational action built from the Weyl tensor within a dilation geometry. In a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-29 Leandro A. Lessa , Caio F. B. Macedo , Manoel M. Ferreira

We construct a Weyl transverse diffeomorphism invariant theory of symmetric teleparallel gravity by employing the Weyl compensator formalism. The low-energy dynamics has a single spin two gravition without a scalar degree of freedom. By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-06 Yu Nakayama

A Weyl geometric scale covariant approach to gravity due to Omote, Dirac, and Utiyama (1971ff) is reconsidered. It can be extended to the electroweak sector of elementary particle fields, taking into account their basic scaling freedom.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Erhard Scholz

We show that, in four-dimensional spacetimes with an arbitrary Einstein metric, with and without a cosmological constant, perturbative dynamical degrees of freedom in generic quadratic-curvature gravity can be decoupled into massless and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-01 Yuki Niiyama , Yuya Nakamura , Ryosuke Zaimokuya , Yu Furuya , Yuuiti Sendouda

Higher-order curvature corrections involving the conformally-invariant Weyl-squared action have played a role in two recent investigations of four-dimensional gravity; in critical gravity, where it is added to the standard cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-02 H. Lu , Yi Pang , C. N. Pope

In this paper, two things are done. (i) Using cohomological techniques, we explore the consistent deformations of linearized conformal gravity in 4 dimensions. We show that the only possibility involving no more than 4 derivatives of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-27 N. Boulanger , M. Henneaux

A massless electroweak theory for leptons is formulated in a Weyl space, W_4, yielding a Weyl invariant gauge dynamics allowing for conformal rescalings of the metric and all fields with nonvanishing Weyl weight together with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-12 Wolfgang Drechsler

We study topologically massive (2+1)-dimensional gravity with a negative cosmological constant. The masses of the linearized curvature excitations about AdS_3 backgrounds are not only shifted from their flat background values but, more…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-28 S. Carlip , S. Deser , A. Waldron , D. K. Wise

We study inflation in Weyl gravity. The original Weyl quadratic gravity, based on Weyl conformal geometry, is a theory invariant under Weyl symmetry of (gauged) local scale transformations. In this theory Planck scale ($M$) emerges as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 D. M. Ghilencea

We consider cosmological topologically massive gravity at the chiral point with positive sign of the Einstein-Hilbert term. We demonstrate the presence of a negative energy bulk mode that grows linearly in time. Unless there are physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-12 Daniel Grumiller , Niklas Johansson

The advanced state of cosmological observations constantly tests the alternative theories of gravity that originate from Einstein's theory. However, this is not restricted to modifications to general relativity. In this sense, we work in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-10 Mohsen Fathi , Mona Kariminezhad , Marco Olivares , J. R. Villanueva

We study the theory of Weyl conformal gravity with matter degrees of freedom in a conformally invariant interaction. Specifically, we consider a triplet of scalar fields and SO(3) non-abelian gauge fields, i.e. the Georgi-Glashow model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-07 A. Edery , Luca Fabbri , M. B. Paranjape

We argue that a spontaneous breakdown of local Weyl invariance offers a mechanism in which gravitational interactions contribute to the generation of particle masses and their electric charge. The theory is formulated in terms of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Dereli , R. W. Tucker

In this paper we consider an extended Gauss-Bonnet gravity theory in arbitrary dimensions and in a space provided with a Weyl connection, which is torsionless but not metric-compatible, the non-metricity tensor being determined by a vector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Tomi S. Koivisto

We develop the covariant phase space formulation of Weyl-transverse gravity (WTG) in the presence of general timelike and spacelike boundaries. WTG is classically equivalent to General Relativity (GR) but possesses a reduced gauge symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-23 Gloria Odak , Salvatore Ribisi

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

The Weyl double copy formalism, which relates the Weyl spinor with the square of the field strength, is studied in the context of Hassan-Rosen bigravity for stationary and time-dependent solutions. We consider the dyonic Kerr-Newman-(A)dS…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-03 Hugo García-Compeán , César I. Ramos

It is shown that in a quadratic gravity based on Weyl's conformal geometry, not only the Einstein-Hilbert action emerges but also a Weyl gauge field becomes massive in the Weyl gauge condition, $\tilde R = k$, for a Weyl gauge symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-04 Ichiro Oda

We discuss the cosmological evolution of the Weyl conformal geometry and its associated Weyl quadratic gravity. The Einstein gravity (with a positive cosmological constant) is recovered in the spontaneously broken phase of Weyl gravity;…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-24 D. M. Ghilencea , T. Harko

We investigate (2+1)-dimensional gravity in a Weyl integrable spacetime (WIST). We show that, unlike general relativity, this scalar-tensor theory has a Newtonian limit for any dimension and that in three dimensions the congruence of world…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-21 J. E. Madriz Aguilar , C. Romero , J. B. Fonseca-Neto , T. S. Almeida , J. B. Formiga