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Energy momentum tensors of higher-derivative free scalar conformal field theories in flat spacetime are discussed. Two algorithms for the computation of energy momentum tensors are described, which accomplish different goals: the first is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-06 Andreas Stergiou , Gian Paolo Vacca , Omar Zanusso

The Weyl equation describes chiral massless relativistic particles, called Weyl fermions, which have important relations to neutrinos. A direct observation of the dynamics of Weyl fermions in an experiment is difficult to achieve. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-05 De-Sheng Li , Chun-Wang Wu , Lin-Ze He , Wei Wu , Ping-Xing Chen

Perturbations of Kerr spacetime are typically studied with the Teukolsky formalism, in which a pair of invariant components of the perturbed Weyl tensor are expressed in terms of separable modes that satisfy ordinary differential equations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Sam R. Dolan , Chris Kavanagh , Barry Wardell

In a previous paper, we have introduced a new unified description of the main equations of the gravitational and of the electromagnetic field, in terms of tidal tensors and connections on the tangent bundle TM of the space-time manifold. In…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-23 Nicoleta Voicu

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

The space-time curvature carried by electromagnetic fields is discovered and a new unification of geometry and electromagnetism is found. Curvature is invariant under charge reversal symmetry. Electromagnetic field equations are examined…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. W. M. Woodside

A certain class of exact solutions of Einstein Maxwell spacetime in general relativity is discussed which demonstrates at the level of theory that, when certain parametric resonance condition is met, the interaction of electromagnetic field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-24 Ruodi Yan , Yun Kau Lau

The field equations of a special class of teleparallel theory of gravitation and electromagnetic fields have been applied to tetrad space having cylindrical symmetry with four unknown functions of radial coordinate $r$ and azimuth angle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gamal G. L. Nashed

We examine some Weyl invariant cosmological models in the framework of generalized dilaton gravity, in which the action is made of a set of $N$ conformally coupled scalar fields. It will be shown that when the FRW ansatz for the spacetime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Enrique Álvarez , Sergio González-Martin , Mario Herrero-Valea

We present a detailed investigation of the properties of the galactic rotation curves in the Weyl geometric gravity model, in which the gravitational action is constructed from the square of the Weyl curvature scalar, and of the strength of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-29 Maria Crăciun , Tiberiu Harko

We construct a Weyl transverse diffeomorphism invariant theory of symmetric teleparallel gravity by employing the Weyl compensator formalism. The low-energy dynamics has a single spin two gravition without a scalar degree of freedom. By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-06 Yu Nakayama

We study the weak-field limit of the conformal Weyl gravity suggested by Mannheim as an alternative to Einstein's General Relativity modeling both dark matter and dark energy. We solve the field equations of the theory in the weak-field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 O. V. Barabash , H. P. Pyatkovska

We transcribe into the framework of the torsionful version of the {\epsilon}-formalism of Infeld and van der Waerden the world definition of the Weyl tensor for a curved spacetime that occurs in the realm of Einstein-Cartan's theory. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-20 J. G. Cardoso

Gravitational waves from the inspiral of a stellar-size black hole to a supermassive black hole can be accurately approximated by a point particle moving in a Kerr background. This paper presents progress on finding the electromagnetic and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Tobias S. Keidl , John L. Friedman , Alan G. Wiseman

In a recent paper we have analyzed the Spinor Theory of Gravity (STG) which is based on the intimate relation between Fermi (weak) interaction and gravity. We presented the hypothesis that the effect of matter upon the metric that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 M. Novello , A. E. S. Hartmann

We give a correct tensor proof of the positive energy problem for the case including momentum on basis of conditions of existence of the two-to-one correspondence between the Sen-Witten spinor field and the Sen-Witten orthonormal frame.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Volodymyr Pelykh

A solution to the gravitational field equations based on a non-symmetric metric tensor is examined. Unlike Einstein's interpretation of electromagnetism, or Moffat's generalized gravity, it is shown that the non-symmetric part of the metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-24 Richard T. Hammond

We obtain exact solution of the Dirac equation for a charged particle with position-dependent mass in the Coulomb field. The effective mass of the spinor has a relativistic component which is proportional to the square of the Compton…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. D. Alhaidari

We show that a class of solutions of minimal supergravity in five dimensions is given by lifts of three--dimensional Einstein--Weyl structures of hyper-CR type. We characterise this class as most general near--horizon limits of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-15 Maciej Dunajski , Jan Gutowski , Wafic Sabra

There exist two consistent theories of self-interacting gravitons: general relativity and Weyl transverse gravity. The latter has the same classical solutions as general relativity, but different local symmetries. We argue that Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Ana Alonso-Serrano , Luis J. Garay , Marek Liška