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We discuss locally Weyl (scale) covariant generalisations of gravitational theories using Riemann-Cartan-Weyl space-times in arbitrary dimensions. We demonstrate the procedure of Weyl gauging on two examples in particular: General…

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We present a general method of deriving the effective action for conformal anomalies in any even dimension, which satisfies the Wess-Zumino consistency condition by construction. The method relies on defining the coboundary operator of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Pawel O. Mazur , Emil Mottola

We discuss generalizations of the notions of projective transformations acting on affine model of Riemann-Cartan and Riemann-Cartan-Weyl gravity which preserve the projective structure of the light-cones. We show how the invariance under…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-25 Dario Sauro , Riccardo Martini , Omar Zanusso

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

A system of gravity coupled to a 2-form gauge field, a dilaton and Yang-Mills fields in $2n$ dimensions arises from the (2,1) sigma model or string. The field equations imply that the curvature with torsion and Yang-Mills field strength are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Abou Zeid , C. M. Hull

We study a system of $n$ Abelian vector fields coupled to $\frac 12 n(n+1)$ complex scalars parametrising the Hermitian symmetric space $\mathsf{Sp}(2n, {\mathbb R})/ \mathsf{U}(n)$. This model is Weyl invariant and possesses the maximal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-29 Darren T. Grasso , Sergei M. Kuzenko , Joshua R. Pinelli

We show how the universal low-energy properties of Weyl semimetals with spatially varying time-reversal (TR) or inversion (I) symmetry breaking are described in terms of chiral fermions experiencing curved-\emph{spacetime} geometry and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Long Liang , Teemu Ojanen

We revisit Weyl's unified field theory, which arose in 1918, shortly after general relativity was discovered. As is well known, in order to extend the program of geometrization of physics started by Einstein to include the electromagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 T. A. T. Sanomiya , I. P. Lobo , J. B. Formiga , F. Dahia , C. Romero

We consider weighted parallel spinors in Lorentzian Weyl geometry in arbitrary dimensions, choosing the weight such that the integrability condition for the existence of such a spinor, implies the geometry to be Einstein-Weyl. We then use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-16 P. Meessen , T. Ortín , A. Palomo-Lozano

A metric projective structure is a manifold equipped with the unparametrised geodesics of some pseudo-Riemannian metric. We make acomprehensive treatment of such structures in the case that there is a projective Weyl curvature nullity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-28 A. Rod Gover , Vladimir S. Matveev

Following the 1984 seminal work of Belavin, Polyakov and Zamolodchikov on two-dimensional conformal field theories, Toda conformal field theories were introduced in the physics literature as a family of two-dimensional conformal field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Baptiste Cerclé , Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas

H. Weyl in 1921 demonstrated that for a connected manifold of dimension greater than $1$, if two Riemannian metrics are conformal and have the same geodesics up to a reparametrization, then one metric is a constant scaling of the other one.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Frédéric Jean , Sofya Maslovskaya , Igor Zelenko

The diffeomorphism covariance is a fundamental property of General Relativity which leads to the fact that the same solution of Einstein equation can be given in completely distinct forms in different coordinate systems. Distinguishing or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Pujian Mao

We consider modified Weyl gravity where a Dirac spinor field is nonminimally coupled to gravity. It is assumed that such modified gravity is some approximation for the description of quantum gravitational effects related to the gravitating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev

We present a scale-invariant theory, conformal gravity, which closely resembles the geometrodynamical formulation of general relativity (GR). While previous attempts to create scale-invariant theories of gravity have been based on Weyl's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Edward Anderson , Julian Barbour , Brendan Foster , Niall O'Murchadha

We establish a one-to-one correspondence between K\"ahler metrics in a given conformal class and parallel sections of a certain vector bundle with conformally invariant connection, where the parallel sections satisfy a set of non--linear…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Maciej Dunajski , A. Rod Gover

Twistor correspondences for R-invariant indefinite self-dual conformal structures on R^4 are established explicitly. These correspondences are written down by using a natural integral transform from functions on a two dimensional cylinder…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-18 Fuminori Nakata

We discuss the structure of nonlocal effective action generating the conformal anomaly in classically Weyl invariant theories in curved spacetime. By the procedure of conformal gauge fixing, selecting the metric representative on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-16 A. O. Barvinsky , W. Wachowski

Recent research in the geometric formulation of quantum theory has implied that Weyl Geometry can be used to merge quantum theory and general relativity consistently as classical field theories. In the Weyl Geometric framework, it seems…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-28 Sijo K. Joseph

The paper describes a unique phenomenon -- the possibility of establishing, in certain space regions, the one-to-one correspondence between equations related to absolutely different physical phenomena: (1) phenomena associated with the Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-28 Mikhail Gorbatenko