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Non-metricity provides a natural extension of Riemannian geometry, yet its experimental signatures remain largely unexplored. In this work we investigate how spacetime non-metricity can be probed through high-precision observations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Mohsen Khodadi , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We consider the dimensional reduction of N=(2,0) conformal supergravity in six dimensions on a two-torus to N=4 conformal supergravity in four dimensions. At the level of kinematics, the six-dimensional Weyl multiplet is shown to reduce to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-16 Franz Ciceri , Axel Kleinschmidt , Subrabalan Murugesan , Bindusar Sahoo

We prove that, in a space-time of dimension n>3 with a velocity field that is shear-free, vorticity-free and acceleration-free, the covariant divergence of the Weyl tensor is zero if the contraction of the Weyl tensor with the velocity is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Luca Guido Molinari , Carlo Alberto Mantica

Metric-affine geometry provides a non-trivial extension of the general relativity where the metric and connection are treated as the two independent fundamental quantities in constructing the space-time (with non-vanishing torsion and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-23 R. Vazirian , M. R. Tanhayi , Z. A. Motahar

We give a non-perturbative proof that any 4D unitary and Lorentz-invariant quantum field theory with a conserved scale current is in fact conformally invariant. We show that any scale invariant theory (unitary or not) must have either a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-18 Kara Farnsworth , Markus A. Luty , Valentina Prelipina

We present a comparative analysis of localization of 4D gravity on a non Z_2-symmetric scalar thick brane in both a 5-dimensional Riemannian space time and a pure geometric Weyl integrable manifold. This work was mainly motivated by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Nandinii Barbosa-Cendejas , Alfredo Herrera-Aguilar

We perform the 4-dimensional Kaluza-Klein (KK) reduction of the 5-dimensional locally scale invariant Weyl-Dirac gravity. While compactification unavoidably introduces an explicit length scale into the theory, it does it in such a way that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-03 Tomer Ygael , Aharon Davidson

On a (pseudo-) Riemannian manifold of dimension n > 2, the space of tensors which transform covariantly under Weyl rescalings of the metric is built. This construction is related to a Weyl-covariant operator D whose commutator [D,D] gives…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Nicolas Boulanger

We consider a Weyl invariant extension of Dirac-Born-Infeld type gravity. An appropriate choice of the metric hides the scalar degree of freedom which is required by the local scale invariance of the action at the first sight, and then a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-27 Nahomi Kan , Takuya Maki , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

This paper presents a projective superspace formulation for 4D N = 2 matter-coupled supergravity. We first describe a variant superspace realization for the N = 2 Weyl multiplet. It differs from that proposed by Howe in 1982 by the choice…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-27 S. M. Kuzenko , U. Lindstrom , M. Rocek , G. Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

We analyse the dynamical properties of disformally transformed theories of gravity. We show that disformal transformation typically introduces novel degrees of freedom, equivalent to the mimetic dark matter, which possesses a Weyl-invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-14 Pavel Jiroušek , Keigo Shimada , Alexander Vikman , Masahide Yamaguchi

In this paper, we derive the action for $N=3$ conformal supergravity in four space-time dimensions. We construct a density formula for $N=3$ conformal supergravity based on the super form action principle. Finally, we embed the $N=3$ Weyl…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-15 Subramanya Hegde , Madhu Mishra , Bindusar Sahoo

The emergent Weyl modes with the broken time-reversal symmetry or inversion symmetry provide large Berry curvature and chirality to carriers, offering the realistic platforms to explore topology of electrons in three-dimensional systems.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Jingyuan Zhong , Jianfeng Wang , Ming Yang , Jie Liu , Zhizhen Ren , Anping Huang , Zhixiang Shi , Zengwei Zhu , Yan Shi , Weichang Hao , Jincheng Zhuang , Yi Du

In 1918 Weyl introduced Weyl conformal geometry and its associated quadratic action which was the first gauge theory, of a spacetime symmetry, the Weyl gauge theory (of dilatations and Poincar\'e symmetry). The initial physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-10 D. M. Ghilencea

We study a single quantum particle in discrete spacetime evolving in a causal way. We see that in the continuum limit any massless particle with a two dimensional internal degree of freedom obeys the Weyl equation, provided that we perform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-25 Terence C. Farrelly , Anthony J. Short

Our conventional system of physical units is based on local or microscopic {\it dimensional} quantities which are {\it defined}, for convenience or otherwise aesthetic reasons, to be spacetime-independent. A more general choice of units may…

General Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 Meir Shimon

The aim of the current paper is to clarify some aspects of the formalism used for describing the scalar-tensor gravity characterized by four arbitrary local functionals of the scalar field. We recall the objects that are invariant with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-13 Ott Vilson

2T-gravity in d+2 dimensions predicts 1T General Relativity (GR) in d dimensions, augmented with a local scale symmetry known as the Weyl symmetry in 1T field theory. The emerging GR comes with a number of constraints, particularly on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Itzhak Bars , Shih-Hung Chen

We study Weyl symmetry for non-relativistic conformal filed theories on curved spatial spaces, and calculate it's quantum anomaly. We show that there is no geometric anomaly, and the non-relativistic Weyl anomaly can appear only due to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-02 Ali Davody

Weyl fermions have recently been observed in several time-reversal-invariant semimetals and photonics materials with broken inversion symmetry. These systems are expected to have exotic transport properties such as the chiral anomaly.…