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We describe a method to generate scalar-tensor theories with Weyl symmetry, starting from arbitrary purely metric higher derivative gravity theories. The method consists in the definition of a conformally-invariant metric $\hat{g}_{\mu…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-12 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Avik Chakraborty

When the full connection of Weyl conformal gravity is varied instead of just the metric, the resulting vacuum field equations reduce to the vacuum Einstein equation, up to the choice of local units, if and only if the torsion vanishes. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-30 James T. Wheeler

We construct a Weyl transverse diffeomorphism invariant theory of 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 construction,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-31 Yu Nakayama

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

We consider the structure and physical properties of specific classes of neutron, quark, and Bose-Einstein Condensate stars in the conformally invariant Weyl geometric gravity theory. The basic theory is derived from the simplest…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-12 Zahra Haghani , Tiberiu Harko

We consider a mimetic type extension of the Weyl geometric gravity theory, by assuming that the metric of the space-time manifold can be parameterized in terms of a scalar field, called the mimetic field. The action of the model is obtained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-19 Daria-Ioana Visa , Tiberiu Harko , Shahab Shahidi

The long-range gravitational terms associated with tidal forces, frame-dragging effects, and gravitational waves are described by the Weyl conformal tensor, the traceless part of the Riemann curvature that is not locally affected by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-29 A. Danehkar

The aim of the current paper is to study the multiscalar-tensor theories of gravity without derivative couplings. We construct a few basic objects that are invariant under a Weyl rescaling of the metric and transform covariantly when the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-25 Piret Kuusk , Laur Jarv , Ott Vilson

In this manuscript, a conformally invariant theory of gravitation in the context of metric measure space is studied. The proposed action is invariant under both diffeomorphism and conformal transformations. Using the variational method, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-06 Nafiseh Rahmanpour , Hossein Shojaie

In this work we take into consideration a generalization of Gauge Theories based on the analysis of the structural characteristics of Maxwell theory, which can be considered as the prototype of such kind of theories (Maxwell-like). Such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-03 Germano Resconi , Ignazio Licata , Christian Corda

Weyl geometry is a natural extension of conformal geometry with Weyl covariance mediated by a Weyl connection. We generalize the Fefferman-Graham (FG) ambient construction for conformal manifolds to a corresponding construction for Weyl…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-26 Weizhen Jia , Manthos Karydas , Robert G. Leigh

In this thesis, we attempt to gain a more complete insight into Double Layer Theories in Weyl Gravity. In order to do this, we first establish the premise of Weyls Theory, including its provenance, development and flaws. This is all…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Victor Berezin , Kushan Dharmadarshi

Weyl's conformal theory of gravity is an extension of Einstein's theory of general relativity which associates metrics with 1-forms . In the case of locally integrable (closed non-exact) 1-forms the spacetime manifolds are no more simply…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-09 Michel Duneau

We use Weyl connection and Weyl geometry in order to construct novel modified gravitational theories. In the simplest case where one uses only the Weyl-connection Ricci scalar as a Lagrangian, the theory recovers general relativity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-12 Gerasimos Kouniatalis , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We extend the f(R) gravity action by including a generic dependence upon the Weyl tensor, and further generalize it to supergravity by using the super-curvature (R) and super-Weyl (W) chiral superfields in N=1 chiral curved superspace. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-24 Sergei V. Ketov , Takahiro Terada

We present a simple, systematic and practical method to construct conformally invariant equations in arbitrary Riemann spaces. This method that we call "Weyl-to-Riemann" is based on two features of Weyl geometry. i) A Weyl space is defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-06 Sofiane Faci

We show that the general theory of relativity can be formulated in the language of Weyl geometry. We develop the concept of Weyl frames and point out that the new mathematical formalism may lead to different pictures of the same…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 C. Romero , J. B. Fonseca-Neto , M. L. Pucheu

We present locally scale (Weyl) covariant generalisation of Minimal Massive Gravity theory using the language of exterior differential forms on Riemann-Cartan-Weyl space-times. The theory is expressed by a locally scale invariant action and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-26 Tekin Dereli , Cem Yetişmişoğlu

We construct all possible Weyl invariant actions in $d=4$ for linearized spin three field in a general gravitational background. The first action is obtained as the square of the generalized Weyl tensor for a spin three gauge field in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Ruben Manvelyan , Gabriel Poghosyan

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