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We investigate the possibility of inducing the cosmological constant from extra dimensions by embedding our four-dimensional Riemannian space-time into a five-dimensional Weyl integrable space. Following approach of the induced matter…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-05 Jose Edgar Madriz Aguilar , Carlos Romero

It is shown that a large class of systems of non-linear wave equations, based on the good-bad-ugly model, admit formal solutions with polyhomogeneous expansions near null infinity. A particular set of variables is introduced which allows us…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-19 Miguel Duarte , Justin C. Feng , Edgar Gasperin , David Hilditch

In this work we explore the effects of nonlinearity on three-dimensional topological phases. Of particular interest are the so-called Weyl semimetals, known for their Weyl nodes, i.e., point-like topological charges which always exist in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-17 Thomas Tuloup , Raditya Weda Bomantara , Jiangbin Gong

Exploiting the special features of four-dimensional Riemannian geometry, we derive topological and rigidity results for hypersurfaces immersed in space forms of dimension 5. First, we provide a complete description of the Weyl tensor for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Davide Dameno , Aaron J. Tyrrell

A local UV cutoff $\Lambda(x)$ transforming under Weyl rescalings allows to construct Weyl invariant kinetic terms for scalar fields including Wilsonian cutoff functions. First we consider scalar fields in curved space-time with local bare…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-02 Ulrich Ellwanger

Consistency of Weyl natural gauge, Lorentz gauge and nonlinear gauge is studied in Weyl geometry. Field equations in generalized Weyl-Dirac theory show that spinless electron and photon are topological defects. Statistical metric and…

General Physics · Physics 2020-11-17 S. C. Tiwari

Space-time--time couples Kaluza's five-dimensional geometry with Weyl's conformal space-time geometry to produce an extension that goes beyond what either of those theories can achieve by itself. Kaluza's ``cylinder condition'' is replaced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Homer G. Ellis

We classify complete gradient Ricci solitons satisfying a fourth-order vanishing condition on the Weyl tensor, improving previously known results. More precisely, we show that any $n$-dimensional ($n\geq 4$) gradient shrinking Ricci soliton…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-06 Giovanni Catino , Paolo Mastrolia , Dario Daniele Monticelli

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

Many topologically non-trivial systems have been recently realized using electromagnetic, acoustic, and other classical wave-based platforms. As the simplest class of three-dimensional topological systems, Weyl semimetals have attracted…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-22 Kunal Shastri , Francesco Monticone

We construct an anisotropic Weyl invariant theory in the ADM formalism and discuss its cosmological consequences. It extends the original anisotropic Weyl invariance of Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity using an extra scalar field. The action is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-01 Taeyoon Moon , Phillial Oh , Jongsu Sohn

We develop the properties of Weyl geometry, beginning with a review of the conformal properties of Riemannian spacetimes. Decomposition of the Riemann curvature into trace and traceless parts allows an easy proof that the Weyl curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-19 James T. Wheeler

We transcribe into the framework of the torsionful version of the {\epsilon}-formalism of Infeld and van der Waerden the world definition of the Weyl tensor for a curved spacetime that occurs in the realm of Einstein-Cartan's theory. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-20 J. G. Cardoso

We use conformal, but ghostful, Weyl gravity to study its ghost-free, second derivative, partially massless (PM) spin 2 component in presence of Einstein gravity with positive cosmological constant. Specifically, we consider both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Deser , E. Joung , A. Waldron

A longstanding open problem in mathematical physics has been that of finding an action principle for the Einstein-Weyl (EW) equations. In this paper, we present for the first time such an action principle in three dimensions in which the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-13 Silke Klemm , Lucrezia Ravera

Einstein-Weyl geometry is a triple (D,g,w), where D is a symmetric connection, [g] is a conformal structure and w is a covector such that: (i) connection D preserves the conformal class [g], that is, Dg=wg; (ii) trace-free part of the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2022-06-29 Sobhi Berjawi , Eugene Ferapontov , Boris Kruglikov , Vladimir Novikov

Vacuum spacetimes admitting a non-twisting geodetic multiple Weyl aligned null direction (WAND) are analyzed in arbitrary dimension using recently developed higher-dimensional Newman-Penrose (NP) formalism. We determine dependence of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Alena Pravdova , Vojtech Pravda

According to folklore in general relativity, the Weyl tensor can be decomposed into parts corresponding to Newton-like, incoming and outgoing wavelike field components. It is shown here that this one-to-one correspondence does not hold for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-25 Stefan Hofmann , Florian Niedermann , Robert Schneider

Algebraic classification of higher dimensional, shear-free, twist-free, expanding (or non-expanding) spacetime is studied with the limit of $D\rightarrow\infty$. Similar to classification of any arbitrary dimension $D>4$, this spacetime is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-07 Pınar Kirezli

We show that for general relativity in odd spacetime dimensions greater than 4, all components of the unphysical Weyl tensor for arbitrary smooth, compact spatial support perturbations of Minkowski spacetime fail to be smooth at null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Stefan Hollands , Robert M. Wald