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We consider scalar-tensor theories of gravity defined in Weyl integrable space-time and show that in the ADM formalism Weyl transformations corresponding to change of frames induce canonical transformations between different representations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-14 A. B. Barreto , M. L. Pucheu , C. Romero

Space-Time in general relativity is a dynamical entity because it is subject to the Einstein field equations. The space-time metric provides different geometrical structures: conformal, volume, projective and linear connection. A deep…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ignacio Sanchez-Rodriguez

Scale invariant (transverse) gravitational theories are introduced. They are invariant under pure metric rescalings (i.e. the matter fields are inert under those). This symmetry forbids the presence of a cosmological constant. Those…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-24 Enrique Álvarez , Roberto Vidal

We study homogeneous and isotropic cosmologies in a Weyl spacetime. It is shown that in Weyl integrable spacetime, the corresponding scalar field may act as a phantom field. In this circumstance the Weyl field gives rise to a late…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 John Miritzis

We consider a gravitational model in a Weyl-Cartan space-time, in which the Weitzenb\"{o}ck condition of the vanishing of the sum of the curvature and torsion scalar is also imposed. Moreover, a kinetic term for the torsion is also included…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-13 Zahra Haghani , Tiberiu Harko , Hamid Reza Sepangi , Shahab Shahidi

We discuss the physics of {\it restricted Weyl invariance}, a symmetry of dimensionless actions in four dimensional curved space time. When we study a scalar field nonminimally coupled to gravity with Weyl(conformal) weight of $-1$ (i.e.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-27 Ariel Edery , Yu Nakayama

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

Of those gauge theories of gravity known to be equivalent to general relativity, only the biconformal gauging introduces new structures - the quotient of the conformal group of any pseudo-Euclidean space by its Weyl subgroup always has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-22 Joseph Andrew Spencer , James T. Wheeler

Using the differential calculus on discrete group, we study the general relativity in the space-time which is the product of a four dimensional manifold by a two-point space. We generalize the usual concept of frame and connection in our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Bin Chen , Takesi Saito , Ke Wu

Canonical quantization of gravity in general relativity is greatly simplified by the artificial decomposition of space and time into a 3+1 formalism. Such a simplification may appear to come at the cost of general covariance. This requires…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-03 Cooper Watson , William Julius , Patrick Brown , Donald Salisbury , Gerald Cleaver

We apply singularity analysis to investigate the integrability properties of the gravitational field equations in Weyl Integrable Spacetime for a spatially flat Friedmann--Lema\^itre--Robertson--Walker background spacetime induced with an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-28 Andronikos Paliathanasis

Using the Steiner-Weyl expansion formula for parallel manifolds and the so called gonihedric principle we find a large class of discrete integral invariants which are defined on simplicial manifolds of various dimensions. These integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Ambjorn , G. K. Savvidy , K. G. Savvidy

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 consider a non-relativistic free scalar field theory with a type of anisotropic scale invariance in which the number of coordinates "scaling like time" is generically greater than one. We propose the Cartesian product of two curved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-30 Guillem Pérez-Nadal

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

We review the theory of alignment in Lorentzian geometry and apply it to the algebraic classification of the Weyl tensor in higher dimensions. This classification reduces to the the well-known Petrov classification of the Weyl tensor in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Coley

We show that Weyl-invariant dilaton gravity provides a description of black holes without classical spacetime singularities. Singularities appear due to ill-behaviour of gauge fixing conditions, one example being the gauge in which theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-15 Predrag Dominis Prester

Based on a unified quantum field theory of spinors assumed to describe all matter fields and their interactions we construct the space time structure of general relativity according to a general connection within the corresponding spinor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-05-11 Martin Kober

We consider several tensorial wave equations, specifically the equations of Maxwell, Yang-Mills, and Weyl fields, posed on a curved spacetime, and we establish new energy inequalities under certain one-sided geometric conditions. Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-17 Annegret Y. Burtscher , James D. E. Grant , Philippe G. LeFloch

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