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Space-time--time is a natural hybrid of Kaluza's five-dimensional geometry and Weyl's conformal space-time geometry. Translations along the secondary time dimension produce the electromagnetic gauge transformations of Kaluza--Klein theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Homer G. Ellis

We discuss the concepts of Weyl and Riemann frames in the context of metric theories of gravity and state the fact that they are completely equivalent as far as geodesic motion is concerned. We apply this result to conformally flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Romero , J. B. Fonseca-Neto , M. L. Pucheu

Einstein's contribution to relativity is reviewed. It is pointed out that Weyl gave first unified theory of gravitation and electromagnetism and it was different than the five dimensional theory of Kaluza. Einstein began his work on…

General Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 S C Tiwari

The Ehlers-Pirani-Schild (EPS) constructive axiomatisation of general relativity, published in 1972, purports to build up the kinematical structure of that theory from only axioms which have indubitable empirical content. It is, therefore,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-16 Emily Adlam , Niels Linnemann , James Read

H. Weyl's proposal of 1918 for generalizing Riemannian geometry by local scale gauge (later called {\em Weyl geometry}) was motivated by mathematical, philosophical and physical considerations. It was the starting point of his unified field…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Erhard Scholz

The generalisation of proper time, as an alternative to models with extra dimensions of space, has been proposed as the source of the elementary structures of matter. Direct connections with the Standard Model of particle physics together…

General Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 David J. Jackson

In view of Ehlers-Pirani-Schild formalism, since 1972 Weyl geometries should be considered to be the most appropriate and complete framework to represent (relativistic) gravitational fields. We shall here show that in any given Lorentzian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-21 L. Fatibene , M. Francaviglia

We examine the necessary physical underpinnings for setting up the cosmological standard model with a global cosmic time parameter. In particular, we discuss the role of Weyl's principle which asserts that cosmic matter moves according to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-07-01 Svend E. Rugh , Henrik Zinkernagel

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

Weyl famously argued that if space were discrete, then Euclidean geometry could not hold even approximately. Since then, many philosophers have responded to this argument by advancing alternative accounts of discrete geometry that recover…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Lu Chen

It is shown that in a quadratic gravity based on Weyl's conformal geometry, not only the Einstein-Hilbert action emerges but also a Weyl gauge field becomes massive in the Weyl gauge condition, $\tilde R = k$, for a Weyl gauge symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-04 Ichiro Oda

The Weyl double copy relates vacuum solutions in general relativity to Abelian gauge fields in Minkowski spacetime. In a previous work, we showed how the Weyl double copy can be extended to provide a treatment of external gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Damien A. Easson , Tucker Manton , Andrew Svesko

A general formal definition of a theory of space and time compatible with the inertia principle is given. The formal definition of reference frame and inertial equivalence between reference frames are used to construct the class of inertial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Caccese , V. A. Cimmelli , A. R. Pace

According to folklore in general relativity, the Weyl tensor can be decomposed into parts corresponding to Newton-like, incoming and outgoing wavelike field components. It is shown here that this one-to-one correspondence does not hold for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-25 Stefan Hofmann , Florian Niedermann , Robert Schneider

Starting from a discussion of the concrete representations of the coordinates of the k-Minkowski spacetime (in 1+1 dimensions, for simplicity), we explicitly compute the associated Weyl operators as functions of a pair of Schroedinger…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-22 Ludwik Dabrowski , Gherardo Piacitelli

Consistency of Weyl natural gauge, Lorentz gauge and nonlinear gauge is studied in Weyl geometry. Field equations in generalized Weyl-Dirac theory show that spinless electron and photon are topological defects. Statistical metric and…

General Physics · Physics 2020-11-17 S. C. Tiwari

The classical unified theory of Weyl is revisited. The possibility of stable extended electron model in the Einstein-Weyl space is suggested.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. C. Tiwari

The asymptotic structure of space-time is studied by imposing conditions on the asymptotics of the metric. These conditions are weak enough to include large classes of physically relevant isolated space-times, but have a rich enough…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-11 Berend Schneider , Neev Khera

In the literature different concepts of compatibility between a projective structure and a conformal structure on a differentiable manifold are used. In particular compatibility in the sense of Weyl geometry is slightly more general than…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Vladimir S. Matveev , Erhard Scholz

Already the simplest examples of Weyl geometry, the static space-time models of general relativity modified by an additional time-homogeneous Weylian length connection lead to beautiful cosmological models (Weyl universes) . The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Erhard Scholz