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In this paper we explore the physical consequences of assuming Weyl invariance of the laws of gravity from the classical standpoint exclusively. Actual Weyl invariance requires to replace the underlying Riemannian geometrical structure of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-20 Israel Quiros

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-18 Tekin Dereli , Cem Yetişmişoğlu

The usual interpretation of Weyl geometry is modified in two senses. First, both the additive Weyl connection and its variation are treated as (1, 2) tensors under the action of Weyl covariant derivative. Second, a modified covariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-18 Fang-Fang Yuan , Yong-Chang Huang

We reformulate the general theory of relativity in the language of Riemann-Cartan geometry. We start from the assumption that the space-time can be described as a non-Riemannian manifold, which, in addition to the metric field, is endowed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 J. B. Fonseca-Neto , C. Romero , S. P. G. Martinez

As is well known, both Weyl and Weitzenb\"ock spacetimes were initially used as attempts to geometrize the electromagnetic field. In this letter, we prove that this field can also be regarded as a geometrical quantity in an extended version…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-03 J. B. Formiga , J. B. Fonseca--Neto , C. Romero

Using the Teleparallel Equivalent of General Relativity formulated in Weitzenb\"{o}ck spacetime, we thoroughly explore a kind of Born-Infeld regular gravity leading to second order field equations for the vielbein components. We explicitly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-08 Rafael Ferraro , Franco Fiorini

We present a cosmological model for early stages of the universe on the basis of a Weyl-Cartan spacetime. In this model, torsion $T^{\alpha}$ and nonmetricity $Q_{\alpha \beta}$ are proportional to the vacuum polarization. Extending earlier…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-03 Dirk Puetzfeld , Romualdo Tresguerres

We investigate the coupling of matter to geometry in conformal quadratic Weyl gravity, by assuming a coupling term of the form $L_m\tilde{R}^2$, where $L_m$ is the ordinary matter Lagrangian, and $\tilde{R}$ is the Weyl scalar. The coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-30 Tiberiu Harko , Shahab Shahidi

In this work we present a derivation of Dirac's equation in a curved space-time starting from a Weyl-invariant action principle in 4+K dimensions. The Weyl invariance of Dirac's equation (and of Quantum Mechanics in general) is made…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Enrico Santamato , Francesco De Martini

In this paper, we consider the generalized Gauss-Bonnet action in $4$-dimensional Weyl-Cartan space-time. In this space-time, the presence of torsion tensor and Weyl vector implies that the generalized Gauss-Bonnet action will not be a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-19 Zahra Haghani , Nima Khosravi , Shahab Shahidi

In this first article of a series on alternative cosmological models we present an extended version of a cosmological model in Weyl-Cartan spacetime. The new model can be viewed as a generalization of a model developed earlier jointly with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-03 Dirk Puetzfeld

In this proceeding, we review modified theories of gravity with a curvature-matter coupling between an arbitrary function of the scalar curvature and the Lagrangian density of matter. This explicit nonminimal coupling induces a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Tiberiu Harko

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

Just after Weyl's paper (Weyl in Gravitation und Elektrizit\"at, Sitzungsber. Preuss. Akad., Berlin, 1918) Einstein claimed that a gravity model written in a spacetime geometry with non-metricity suffers from a phenomenon, the so-called…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-18 Caglar Pala , Ozcan Sert , Muzaffer Adak

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

In any quantum theory of gravity, it is of the utmost importance to recover the limit of quantum theory in an external spacetime. In quantum geometrodynamics (quantization of general relativity in the Schr\"odinger picture), this leads in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 Claus Kiefer , Branislav Nikolic

We investigate (2+1)-dimensional gravity in a Weyl integrable spacetime (WIST). We show that, unlike general relativity, this scalar-tensor theory has a Newtonian limit for any dimension and that in three dimensions the congruence of world…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-21 J. E. Madriz Aguilar , C. Romero , J. B. Fonseca-Neto , T. S. Almeida , J. B. Formiga

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

The universe is a vast and complex system, and our understanding of its fundamental workings is constantly evolving. In this work, we present a novel modification to the standard theory of gravity by incorporating curvature, torsion,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-07 Davood Momeni , Ratbay Myrzakulov

We discuss the concepts of Weyl and Riemann frames in the context of metric theories of gravity and state the fact that they are completely equivalent as far as geodesic motion is concerned. We apply this result to conformally flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Romero , J. B. Fonseca-Neto , M. L. Pucheu