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In this paper we apply the symmetry principle in order to search for an alternative unified explanation of several cosmological puzzles such as the present stage of accelerated expansion of the Universe and the Hubble tension issue, among…

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We present a complete algebraic classification for the curvature tensor in Weyl-Cartan geometry, by applying methods of eigenvalues and principal null directions on its irreducible decomposition under the group of global Lorentz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-24 Sebastian Bahamonde , Jorge Gigante Valcarcel

It is shown in the present paper that the transformation relating a parallel transported vector in a Weyl space to the original one is the product of a multiplicative gauge transformation and a proper orthochronous Lorentz transformation.…

General Physics · Physics 2015-03-09 Shiv R. Vatsya

Thomas-Whitehead (TW) gravity is a recently formulated projectively invariant extension of Einstein-Hilbert gravity. Projective geometry was used long ago by Thomas et. al. to succinctly package equivalent paths encoded by the geodesic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-28 Tyler Grover , Kory Stiffler , Patrick Vecera

In this paper, we have explored the cosmological implications of Weyl-type $f(Q,T)$ gravity, a modified gravitational theory formulated from Weyl geometry. The nonmetricity scalar $Q$ is coupled to the trace $T$ of the energy-momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-17 Rahul Bhagat , S. K. Tripathy , B. Mishra

We develop a manifestly conformal approach to describe linearised (super)conformal higher-spin gauge theories in arbitrary conformally flat backgrounds in three and four spacetime dimensions. Closed-form expressions in terms of gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Michael Ponds

We apply the Weyl method, as sanctioned by Palais' symmetric criticality theorems, to obtain those -highly symmetric -geometries amenable to explicit solution, in generic gravitational models and dimension. The technique consists of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Deser , Bayram Tekin

In this paper we study the possibility of assigning a geometric structure to the Lie groups. It is shown the Poincar\'{e} and Weyl groups have geometrical structure of the Riemann-Cartan and Weyl space-time respectively. The geometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Nafiseh Rahmanpour , Nima Khosravi , Babak Vakili

We investigate the cosmological applications of a bi-scalar modified gravity that exhibits partial conformal invariance, which could become full conformal invariance in the absence of the usual Einstein-Hilbert term and introducing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-27 Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Minas Tsoukalas

In order to treat quantum cosmology in the framework of Weyl spacetimes we take the first step of extending the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner formalism to Weyl geometry. We then obtain an expression of the curvature tensor in terms of spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 A. B. Barreto , T. S. Almeida , C. Romero

Theories of scalars and gravity, with non-minimal interactions, $\sim (M_P^2 +F(\phi) )R +L(\phi)$, have graviton exchange induced contact terms. These terms arise in single particle reducible diagrams with vertices $\propto q^2$ that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Christopher T. Hill , Graham G. Ross

Scale-invariant actions in arbitrary dimensions are investigated in curved space to clarify the relation between scale-, Weyl- and conformal invariance on the classical level. The global Weyl-group is gauged. Then the class of actions is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Iorio , L. O'Raifeartaigh , I. Sachs , C. Wiesendanger

The main result of the paper is a new representation of the Weyl Lagrangian (massless Dirac Lagrangian). As the dynamical variable we use the coframe, i.e. an orthonormal tetrad of covector fields. We write down a simple Lagrangian - wedge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-03 Dmitri Vassiliev

The purpose of the paper is to develop further a projection variational approach in relativistic hydrodynamics. The approach, previously proposed in [gr-qc/9908032], is based on the variation of the vector field and the projection tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. G. Dimitrov

The cosmological term prevents perturbation based on derivative expansion in Einstein gravity. We consider quantum theory of gravitation invariant under volume-preserving diffeomorphism and Weyl transformation, which is suitable for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 K. -I. Izawa

We present some approaches to the perturbative analysis of the classical and quantum gravity. First we introduce a graphical representation for a global SO(n) tensor $(\pl)^d h_\ab$, which generally appears in the weak field expansion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Shoichi Ichinose , Noriaki Ikeda

We consider the construction of gauge theories of gravity that are invariant under local conformal transformations. We first clarify the geometric nature of global conformal transformations, in both their infinitesimal and finite forms, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-10 Michael Hobson , Anthony Lasenby

We explore the trace (Weyl) anomaly within a general metric-affine geometry that includes both torsion and nonmetricity. Using the Heat Kernel method and Seeley's algorithm, we compute the Minakshisundaram coefficients for arbitrary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-03 Sebastian Bahamonde , Yuichi Miyashita , Masahide Yamaguchi

We consider Weyl gauge theories of gravity (WGTs), which are invariant both under local Poincar\'e transformations and local changes of scale. Such theories may be interpreted as gauge theories in Minkowski spacetime, but their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-25 Michael Hobson , Anthony Lasenby

In this paper a Weyl geometric scalar tensor theory of gravity with scalar field $\Phi$ and scale invariant cubic ("aquadratic") kinetic Lagrangian is introduced. Einstein gauge (comparable to Einstein frame in Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory) is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-09 Erhard Scholz