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Ehlers, Pirani, and Schild argued that measurements of null and timelike geodesics yield Weyl and projective connections, respectively, with compatibility in the lightlike limit giving an integrable Weyl connection. Their conclusions hold…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-14 James T. Wheeler

We consider four (real or complex) dimensional hyper-K\"ahler metrics with a conformal symmetry K. The three-dimensional space of orbits of K is shown to have an Einstein-Weyl structure which admits a shear-free geodesics congruence for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Maciej Dunajski , Paul Tod

We obtain a gauge-invariant relativistic quantum geometry by using a Weylian-like manifold with a geometric scalar field which provides a gauge-invariant relativistic quantum theory in which the algebra of the Weylian-like field depends on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-18 Luis Santiago Ridao , Mauricio Bellini

A generalized Weyl integrable geometry (GWIG) is obtained from simultaneous affine transformations of the tangent and cotangent bundles of a (pseudo)-Riemannian manifold. In comparison with the classical Weyl integrable geometry (CWIG),…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 Fereidoun Sabetghadam

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

We construct the Weyl multiplets of N=2 conformal supergravity in five dimensions. We show that there exist two different versions of the Weyl multiplet, which contain the same gauge fields but differ in the matter field content: the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-03 Eric Bergshoeff , Sorin Cucu , Martijn Derix , Tim de Wit , Rein Halbersma , Antoine Van Proeyen

Flat-space conformal invariance and curved-space Weyl invariance are simply related in dimensions greater than two. In two dimensions the Liouville theory presents an exceptional situation, which we here examine.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Jackiw

It was argued recently that conformal invariance in flat spacetime implies Weyl invariance in a general curved background for unitary theories and possible anomalies in the Weyl variation of scalar operators are identified. We argue that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Feng Wu

We consider cosmological implications of the Weyl geometric gravity theory. The basic action of the model is obtained from the simplest conformally invariant gravitational action, constructed, in Weyl geometry, from the square of the Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-18 Tiberiu Harko , Shahab Shahidi

We study the Standard Model (SM) in Weyl conformal geometry. This embedding is natural and truly minimal {\it with no new fields} required beyond the SM spectrum and Weyl geometry. The action inherits a gauged scale symmetry $D(1)$ (known…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-24 D. M. Ghilencea

A constructive procedure is proposed for formulation of linear differential equations invariant under global symmetry transformations forming a semi-simple Lie algebra f. Under certain conditions f-invariant systems of differential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 O. V. Shaynkman , I. Yu. Tipunin , M. A. Vasiliev

We introduce the new algebraic property of Weyl compatibility for symmetric tensors and vectors. It is strictly related to Riemann compatibility, which generalizes the Codazzi condition while preserving much of its geometric implications.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-10 Carlo A. Mantica , Luca G. Molinari

We present a geometric construction and characterization of $2n$-dimensional split-signature conformal structures endowed with a twistor spinor with integrable kernel. The construction is regarded as a modification of the conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-12 Matthias Hammerl , Katja Sagerschnig , Josef Šilhan , Vojtěch Žádník

We put forward the idea that in addition to diffeomorphism invariance of general relativity (GR) the gravitational interaction is invariant under arbitrary scale-deformations of the metric field. In addition, we assume that the scaling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-19 Meir Shimon

We investigate the cosmological evolution for the physical parameters in Weyl integrable gravity in a Friedmann--Lema\^{\i}tre--Robertson--Walker universe with zero spatially curvature. For the matter component, we assume that it is an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-02 Andronikos Paliathanasis

In this note we show that given a conformally invariant theory in flat space-time, it is not always possible to couple it to gravity in a Weyl invariant way.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-12 Georgios K. Karananas , Alexander Monin

We analyze gravitational theories with quadratic curvature terms, including the case of conformally invariant Weyl gravity, motivated by the intention to find a renormalizable theory of gravity in the ultraviolet region, yet yielding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-18 Josef Klusoň , Markku Oksanen , Anca Tureanu

We investigate complex quaternion-valued exterior differential forms over 4-dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes and explore Weyl spinor fields as minimal left ideals within the complex quaternion algebra. The variational derivation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-03 Tekin Dereli , Yorgo Senikoglu

We apply the theory of Weyl structures for parabolic geometries developed by A. Cap and J. Slovak in to compute, for a quaternionic contact (qc) structure, the Weyl connection associated to a choice of scale, i.e. to a choice of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-17 Jesse Alt

A conservative extension of general relativity by integrable Weyl geometry is formulated, and a new class of cosmological models ({\em Weyl universes}) is introduced and studied. A short discussion of how these new models behave in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Erhard Scholz