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In the report, the theory of unimodular bimode gravity built on principles of unimodular gauge invariance/relativity and general covariance is exposed. Besides the massless tensor graviton of General Relativity, the theory includes an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-01 Yu. F. Pirogov

Unimodular gravity is classically equivalent to standard Einstein gravity, but differs when it comes to the quantum theory: The conformal factor is non-dynamical, and the gauge symmetry consists of transverse diffeomorphisms only.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Astrid Eichhorn

We discuss unimodular gravity at a classical level, and in terms of its extension into the UV through an appropriate path integral representation. Classically, unimodular gravity is simply a gauge fixed version of General Relativity (GR),…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-20 Antonio Padilla , Ippocratis D. Saltas

The search for the gravitational energy-momentum tensor is often qualified as an attempt of looking for ``the right answer to the wrong question''. This position does not seem convincing to us. We think that we have found the right answer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 S V Babak , L P Grishchuk

The conformal invariance of unimodular gravity survives quantum corrections, even in the presence of conformal matter. Unimodular gravity can actually be understood as a certain truncation of the full Einstein-Hilbert theory, where in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Enrique Álvarez , Mario Herrero-Valea

The so-called unimodular version of General Relativity is revisited. Unimodular gravity is constructed by fixing the determinant of the metric, what leads to the trace-free part of the equations instead of the usual Einstein field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-22 Diego Saez-Gomez

Unimodular gravity (UG) is classically considered identical to General Relativity (GR). However, due to restricted diffeomorphism symmetry, the Bianchi identites do not lead to the conservation of energy-momentum tensor. Thus, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-18 Indranil Chakraborty , Soumya Jana , Subhendra Mohanty

The renormalization group flow of unimodular quantum gravity is computed by taking into account the graviton and Faddeev-Popov ghosts anomalous dimensions. In this setting, a ultraviolet attractive fixed point is found. Symmetry-breaking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-14 Gustavo P. de Brito , Antonio D. Pereira

Momentum can be regarded as a mass current that can be used as the source of the gravitoelectromagnetic field, which is the weak-field gravitational analogue of the classical electromagnetic field. Typically, gravitoelectromagnetic research…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-22 David Delphenich

We consider modifications of general relativity characterized by a special noncovariant constraint on metric coefficients, which effectively generates a perfect-fluid type of matter stress tensor in Einstein equations. Such class of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-24 A. O. Barvinsky , N. Kolganov , A. Vikman

By applying the symmetric and trace-free formalism in terms of the irreducible Cartesian tensors, the metric for the external gravitational field of a spatially compact stationary source is provided in $F(X,Y,Z)$ gravity, a generic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-15 Bofeng Wu , Chao-Guang Huang

To guarantee the stability of the cosmological constant sector against radiative corrections coming from quantum matter fields, one of the most natural ingredients to invoke is the symmetry under scale transformations of the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-01 Raúl Carballo-Rubio

Theories of gravity invariant under those diffeomorphisms generated by transverse vectors, $\pd_\m\xi^\m=0$ are considered. Such theories are dubbed transverse, and differ from General Relativity in that the determinant of the metric, $g$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-17 Enrique Álvarez , Antón F. Faedo , J. J. López-Villarejo

We introduce a new Weyl-invariant and generally-covariant vector-tensor theory with higher derivatives. This theory can be induced by extending the mimetic construction to vector fields of conformal weight four. We demonstrate that in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-03 Pavel Jiroušek , Alexander Vikman

We develop and apply a fully covariant 1+3 electromagnetic analogy for gravity. The free gravitational field is covariantly characterized by the Weyl gravito-electric and gravito-magnetic spatial tensor fields, whose dynamical equations are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Roy Maartens , Bruce A. Bassett

Unimodular gravity is an alternative theory of gravity to general relativity. The gravitational field equations are given by the trace-free version of Einstein's field equations. Due to the structure of the theory, unimodular gravity admits…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-18 M. P. Piccirilli , G. León

The Hamiltonian formalism of the generalized unimodular gravity theory, which was recently suggested as a model of dark energy, is shown to be a complicated example of constrained dynamical system. The set of its canonical constraints has a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-07 A. O. Barvinsky , N. Kolganov , A. Kurov , D. Nesterov

We introduce a modified divergence law for the energy-momentum tensor in the theory of unimodular relativity. Consequently, an additional equation for the measure field follows from the divergence of the field equations. The equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-09-20 Robert D. Bock

We compare the path integral for transition functions in unimodular gravity and in general relativity. In unimodular gravity the cosmological constant is a property of states that are specified at the boundaries whereas in general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-28 Wilfried Buchmuller , Norbert Dragon

Viewing gravitational energy momentum $p_G^\mu$ as equal by observation, but different in essence from inertial energy-momentum $p_I^\mu$ requires two different symmetries to account for their independent conservations - spacetime and inner…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 C. Wiesendanger