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We develop the covariant phase space formulation of Weyl-transverse gravity (WTG) in the presence of general timelike and spacelike boundaries. WTG is classically equivalent to General Relativity (GR) but possesses a reduced gauge symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-23 Gloria Odak , Salvatore Ribisi

We combine the ghost-free bimetric theory of gravity with the concept of local Weyl invariance, realized in the framework of Einstein-Cartan gravity. The gravitational sector, characterized by two independent metrics and two independent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Ioannis D. Gialamas , Kyriakos Tamvakis

We consider the structure and physical properties of specific classes of neutron, quark, and Bose-Einstein Condensate stars in the conformally invariant Weyl geometric gravity theory. The basic theory is derived from the simplest…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-12 Zahra Haghani , Tiberiu Harko

In this short note we analyze the inflationary dynamics in Weyl-invariant Einstein-Cartan gravity coupled to the Standard Model of particle physics. We take the axion-like particle of gravitational origin to be approximately massless in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-10 Georgios K. Karananas , Mikhail Shaposhnikov

We consider Weyl's conformal gravity coupled to a complex matter field in Weyl geometry. It is shown that a Higgs potential naturally arises from a $\tilde R^2$ term in moving from the Jordan frame to the Einstein frame. A massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Ichiro Oda

The gravitational interaction, as described by the Einstein-Cartan theory, is shown to emerge as the by-product of the spontaneous symmetry breaking of a gauge symmetry in a pre-geometric four-dimensional spacetime. Starting from a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-15 Andrea Addazi , Salvatore Capozziello , Antonino Marciano , Giuseppe Meluccio

This paper presents three aspects by which the Weyl geometric generalization of Riemannian geometry, and of Einstein gravity, sheds light on actual questions of physics and its philosophical reflection. After introducing the theory's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-28 Erhard Scholz

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

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

A scale invariant theory of gravity, containing at most two derivatives, requires, in addition to the Riemannian metric, a scalar field and (or) a gauge field. The gauge field is usualy used to construct the affine connection of Weyl…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-08 N. Mohammedi

Pure $R^2$ gravity has been shown to be equivalent to Einstein gravity with non-zero cosmological constant and a massless scalar field. We show that the Palatini formulation of pure $R^2$ gravity is equivalent to Einstein gravity with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-19 Ariel Edery , Yu Nakayama

We comment on some peculiarities of matter with and without Weyl invariance coupled to classical $2d$ Einstein-Hilbert gravity for several models, in particular, related to the counting of degrees of freedom and on the dynamics. We find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-05 Corinne de Lacroix , Harold Erbin

Under carefully chosen assumptions a single general relativistic scalar field is able to induce MOND-like dynamics in the weak field approximation of the Einstein frame (gauge) and to modify the light cone structure accordingly. This is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-10 Erhard Scholz

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

A massless electroweak theory for leptons is formulated in a Weyl space, W_4, yielding a Weyl invariant gauge dynamics allowing for conformal rescalings of the metric and all fields with nonvanishing Weyl weight together with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-12 Wolfgang Drechsler

We construct a Weyl-Einsteinian-Cubic Gravity (ECG) as a cubic gauge theory of gravity via abelian gauge and properly tuned compensating real scalar fields. The model is free from any dimensionful parameters. The bare ECG emerges as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-05 Suat Dengiz

We construct a model for noncommutative gravity in four dimensions, which reduces to the Einstein-Hilbert action in the commutative limit. Our proposal is based on a gauge formulation of gravity with constraints. While the action is metric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Matteo A. Cardella , Daniela Zanon

We give a derivation of general relativity and the gauge principle that is novel in presupposing neither spacetime nor the relativity principle. We consider a class of actions defined on superspace with two key properties. The first is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Julian Barbour , Brendan Foster , Niall Ó Murchadha

We consider conformally invariant form of the actions in Einstein, Weyl, Einstein-Cartan and Einstein-Cartan-Weyl space in general dimensions($>2$) and investigate the relations among them. In Weyl space, the observational consistency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-23 Tae Yoon Moon , Joohan Lee , Phillial Oh

We construct a model unifying gravity with weak $SU(2)$ gauge and "Higgs" scalar fields. We assume the existence of a visible and an invisible (hidden) sector of the Universe. We used the extension of Plebanski's 4-dimensional gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-24 C. D. Froggatt , C. R. Das , L. V. Laperashvili , H. B. Nielsen , A. Tureanu