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We determine the leading order fall-off behaviour of the Weyl tensor in higher dimensional Einstein spacetimes (with and without a cosmological constant) as one approaches infinity along a congruence of null geodesics. The null congruence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Marcello Ortaggio , Alena Pravdová

In the standard Einstein's theory the exterior gravitational field of any static and axially symmetric stellar object can be described by means of a single function from which we obtain a metric into a four-dimensional space-time. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-19 J. L. Hernández-Pastora

Many classical results in relativity theory concerning spherically symmetric space-times have easy generalizations to warped product space-times, with a two-dimensional Lorentzian base and arbitrary dimensional Riemannian fibers. We first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-20 Xinliang An , Willie Wai Yeung Wong

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 argue that conformal invariance in flat spacetime implies Weyl invariance in a general curved background metric for all unitary theories in spacetime dimensions $d \leq 10$. We also study possible curvature corrections to the Weyl…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Kara Farnsworth , Markus A. Luty , Valentina Prilepina

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 show the rigid singularity theorem, that is, a globally hyperbolic spacetime satisfying the strong energy condition and containing past trapped sets, either is timelike geodesically incomplete or splits isometrically as space $\times$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Makoto Narita

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

A de-Sitter gauge theory of the gravitational field is developed using a spherical symmetric Minkowski space-time as base manifold. The gravitational field is described by gauge potentials and the mathematical structure of the underlying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Zet , C. D. Oprisan , S. Babeti

There exist two consistent theories of massless, self-interacting gravitons, which differ by their local symmetries: general relativity and Weyl transverse gravity. We show that these two theories are also the only two metric descriptions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-14 Ana Alonso-Serrano , Luis J. Garay , Marek Liška

We provide the full classification, in arbitrary even and odd dimensions, of global conformal invariants, i.e., scalar densities in the spacetime metric and its derivatives that are invariant, possibly up to a total derivative, under local…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-05 Nicolas Boulanger , Jordan François , Serge Lazzarini

In this paper we discuss on the phenomenological viability of nonmetricity theories of gravity which are based in the class of generalized Weyl spacetimes -- denoted by $W_4$ -- where arbitrary nonmetricity is allowed. This class of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Israel Quiros

We give a classification of the type D spacetimes based on the invariant differential properties of the Weyl principal structure. Our classification is established using tensorial invariants of the Weyl tensor and, consequently, besides its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 J. J. Ferrando , J. A. Sáez

We derive a Weyl invariant equation for Gravity by gauging the global Weyl invariance of vacuum Einstein equations. The equation is linear in the curvature and a natural generalization of Einstein equations to Weyl geometry. The system has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-03 Máximo Bañados

Special relativity is most naturally formulated as a theory of space-time geometry, but within the space-time framework probability apears to be at best an epistemic notion - a matter of what can be known, not of the status of events in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon Saunders

In this work we consider a scale-tensor theory in which the space-time is endowed with a Weyl integrable geometrical structure due to the Palatini variational method. Since the scalar field has a geometrical nature (related to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-06 Adriano B. Barreto , Gilberto M. Kremer

A generalised equivalence principle is put forward according to which space-time symmetries and internal quantum symmetries are indistinguishable before symmetry breaking. Based on this principle, a higher-dimensional extension of Minkowski…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston

Recently, it was shown that the quantum effects of the matter, could be used to determine the conformal degree of freedom of the space-time metric. So both gravity and quantum are geometrical features. Gravity determines the causal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Fatimah Shojai , Ali Shojai , Mehdi Golshani

We present the exact time-dependent solutions on inhomogeneous spherically symmetric space-time in the conformal invariant Weyl gravity. For this purpose, the subclass of the Lemaitre-Tolman metric which is supported by an anisotropic fluid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-14 Malihe Heydari-Fard , Mohammad Rahim Bordbar , Golnaz Mohammadi

In this talk notes we expose the possibility to induce the cosmological constant from extra dimensions, in a geometrical framework where our four-dimensional Riemannian space-time is embedded into a five-dimensional Weyl integrable space.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-28 Jose Edgar Madriz Aguilar , Carlos Romero