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A class of vector-tensor theories arises naturally in the framework of quadratic gravity in spacetimes with linear vector distortion. Requiring the absence of ghosts for the vector field imposes an interesting condition on the allowed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Lavinia Heisenberg , Tomi S. Koivisto

To guarantee the stability of the cosmological constant sector against radiative corrections coming from quantum matter fields, one of the most natural ingredients to invoke is the symmetry under scale transformations of the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-01 Raúl Carballo-Rubio

We investigate the cosmic evolution of the Universe across different cosmological epochs in exponential Weyl-type $f(Q, T)$ gravity model. The theoretical analysis involves a detailed dynamical system approach, where we define dimensionless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-10 Rahul Bhagat , Francisco Tello-Ortiz , B. Mishra

In this paper, two things are done. (i) Using cohomological techniques, we explore the consistent deformations of linearized conformal gravity in 4 dimensions. We show that the only possibility involving no more than 4 derivatives of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-27 N. Boulanger , M. Henneaux

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

An exact solution was produced for one of the versions of conformal -invariant gravitation theories (conformal geometrodynamics - CG) for the body with a mass and an electric charge. The solution is analogous to the Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-10 M. V. Gorbatenko , S. Yu. Sedov

The long-range gravitational terms associated with tidal forces, frame-dragging effects, and gravitational waves are described by the Weyl conformal tensor, the traceless part of the Riemann curvature that is not locally affected by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-29 A. Danehkar

In contrast to the phenomenon of nullification of the cosmological constant in the equilibrium vacuum, which is the general property of any quantum vacuum, there are many options in modifying the Einstein equation to allow the cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 G. E. Volovik

We propose several covariant models which may solve one of the problems in the cosmological constant. One of the model can be regarded as an extension of sequestering model. Other models could be regarded as extensions of the covariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-10 Shin'ichi Nojiri

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

We study canonical conformal gravity in four dimensions and construct the gauge generators and the associated charges. Using slightly generalized boundary conditions compared to those in \cite{Grumiller:2013mxa} we find that the charges…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Maria Irakleidou , Iva Lovrekovic , Florian Preis

We introduce a cosmological model in the framework of Generalised Massive Gravity. This theory is an extension of non-linear massive gravity with a broken translation symmetry in the St\"uckelberg space. In a recent work, we showed the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Michael Kenna-Allison , A. Emir Gumrukcuoglu , Kazuya Koyama

This study investigates the possibility of a homogeneous and isotropic cosmological solution within the context of the Maxwell-Weyl gauge theory of gravity. To achieve this, we utilize the Einstein-Yang-Mills theory as an analogy and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-26 Salih Kibaroğlu

In this paper, we discuss the gravitational waves in the context of gauge theory gravity with a negative cosmological constant. The gauge theory gravity is a gravity theory under gauge formulation in the language of geometric algebra. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-12 Jianfei Xu

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

We develop a Hamiltonian formulation of Bianchi type-I cosmological model in conformal gravity, i.e. the theory described by a Lagrangian which involves the quadratic curvature invariant constructed from the Weyl tensor, in four dimensions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Laurent Querella

In this paper we obtain some cosmological solutions that describe the present period of accelerating expansion of the universe in the framework of a geometrical gauge scalar-tensor theory of gravity. The background geometry in the model is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 José Edgar Madriz Aguilar , M. Montes , A. Bernal

The late time evolution of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) models with a perfect fluid matter source is studied in the conformal frame of $f(R) $ gravity. We assume that the corresponding scalar field, nonminimally coupled to matter, has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 John Miritzis , Roberto Giambò

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

In this paper we use the conformal teleparallel gravity to study an isotropic and homogeneous Universe which is settled by the FRW metric. We solve the field equations and we obtain the behavior of some cosmological parameters such as scale…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 J. G. Silva , A. F. Santos , S. C. Ulhoa