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The generalization of scale invariance when gravitational effects are considered is Weyl invariance, namely, invariance under (global or local) rescalings of the metric. In this work, we discuss in some details the implications of the fact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-14 Enrique Alvarez , Jesus Anero , Raquel Santos-Garcia

Conformally invariant massless field systems involving only dimensionless parameters are known to describe particle physics at very high energy. In the presence of an external gravitational field, the conformal symmetry may generalize to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicolas Boulanger

We propose a superspace formulation for the Weyl multiplet of N=1 conformal supergravity in five dimensions. The corresponding superspace constraints are invariant under super-Weyl transformations generated by a real scalar parameter. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-19 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

Weyl-invariant extensions of three-dimensional New Massive Gravity, generic n-dimensional Quadratic Curvature Gravity theories and three-dimensional Born-Infeld gravity theory are analyzed in details. As required by Weyl-invariance, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-01 Suat Dengiz

We show how the universal low-energy properties of Weyl semimetals with spatially varying time-reversal (TR) or inversion (I) symmetry breaking are described in terms of chiral fermions experiencing curved-\emph{spacetime} geometry and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Long Liang , Teemu Ojanen

We review recent developments in physical implications of Weyl conformal geometry. The associated Weyl quadratic gravity action is a gauge theory of the Weyl group of dilatations and Poincar\'e symmetry. Weyl conformal geometry is defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-05 D. M. Ghilencea

This elementary discussion generalizes a Weyl geometry to allow quaternion valued gauge transformations and classical Yang-Mills geometric fields. This development will assume that the symmetric metric tensor is real in some gauge, and will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-10 J. E. Rankin

We discuss Weyl (conformal) transformations in two-dimensional matterless dilaton gravity. We argue that both classical and quantum dilaton gravity theories are invariant under Weyl transformations.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Marco Cavaglia

We construct the analogue of the Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) action in Weyl conformal geometry in $d$ dimensions and obtain a general theory of gravity with Weyl gauge symmetry of dilatations (Weyl-DBI). This is done in the Weyl gauge covariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 D. M. Ghilencea

We study substructures of the Weyl group of conformal transformations of the metric of (pseudo)Riemannian manifolds. These substructures are identified by differential constraints on the conformal factors of the transformations which are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-10 Riccardo Martini , Gregorio Paci , Dario Sauro , Gian Paolo Vacca , Omar Zanusso

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 explore an unusual symmetry in a field theory on a specific (1+1)-dimensional curved spacetime, which has an interesting interpretation as an approximate asymptotic Weyl symmetry. Unlike the conventional Weyl symmetry, the boundary term…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 Jeongwon Ho , O-Kab Kwon , Sang-A Park , Sang-Heon Yi

We define the notion of Weyl anomalies, measuring the violation of local scale invariance, in interacting quantum field theory on curved spacetimes in the framework of locally covariant field theory. We discuss some general properties of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-13 Markus B. Fröb , Jochen Zahn

We search for a real bosonic and fermionic action in four dimensions which both remain invariant under local Weyl transformations in the presence of non-metricity and contortion tensor. In the presence of the non-metricity tensor the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Agapitos Hatzinikitas

A new class of Weyl invariant backgrounds are presented in terms of the metric $G_{\mu\nu}$ and the anti-symmetric Kalb-Ramond fields $B_{\mu\nu}$. The ten-dimensional spacetime is a product of four-dimensional flat spacetime and curved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Yutaka Hosotani

We present a general method of deriving the effective action for conformal anomalies in any even dimension, which satisfies the Wess-Zumino consistency condition by construction. The method relies on defining the coboundary operator of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Pawel O. Mazur , Emil Mottola

Weyl conformal geometry is a gauge theory of scale invariance that naturally brings together the Standard Model (SM) and Einstein gravity. The SM embedding in this geometry is possible without new degrees of freedom beyond SM and Weyl…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-14 D. M. Ghilencea

The evolution of 4-dimensional and (4+d)-dimensional (d=1,2) cosmological models based on the integrable Weyl geometry are considered numerically both for empty space-time and for scalar field with non minimal coupling with gravity.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 V. N. Melnikov , M. Yu. Konstantinov

We provide a gauge-invariant theory of gravitation in the context of Weyl Integrable Space-Times. After making a brief review of the theory's postulates, we carefully define the observers' proper-time and point out its relation with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-31 F. P. Poulis , J. M. Salim

A review of the construction of a Weyl-invariant spinning-membrane action that is $polynomial$ in the fields, without a cosmological constant term, comprised of quadratic and quartic-derivative terms, and where supersymmetry is linearly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Carlos Castro