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We present some basic facts concerning simultaneity in both special and general relativity. We discuss Weyl's proof of the consistence of Einstein's synchronization convention and consider the general relativistic problem of assigning a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Minguzzi

We investigate complex quaternion-valued exterior differential forms over 4-dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes and explore Weyl spinor fields as minimal left ideals within the complex quaternion algebra. The variational derivation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-03 Tekin Dereli , Yorgo Senikoglu

Noticing that really the fermions of the Standard Model are best thought of as Weyl - rather than Dirac - particles (relative to fundamental scales located at some presumably very high energies) it becomes interesting that the experimental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Holger Bech Nielsen , Svend Erik Rugh

Using only the principle of relativity and Euclidean geometry we show in this pedagogical article that the square of proper time or length in a two-dimensional spacetime diagram is proportional to the Euclidean area of the corresponding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Dieter Brill , Ted Jacobson

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

We review (non-supersymmetric) gauge theories of four-dimensional space-time symmetries and their quadratic action. The only true gauge theory of such a symmetry (with a physical gauge boson) that has an exact geometric interpretation,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-15 C. Condeescu , D. M. Ghilencea , A. Micu

In any quantum theory of gravity, it is of the utmost importance to recover the limit of quantum theory in an external spacetime. In quantum geometrodynamics (quantization of general relativity in the Schr\"odinger picture), this leads in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 Claus Kiefer , Branislav Nikolic

We investigate the Weyl space-time extension of general relativity (GR) for studying the FLRW cosmology through focusing and defocusing of the geodesic congruences. We have derived the equations of evolution for expansion, shear and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-06 Radouane Gannouji , Hemwati Nandan , Naresh Dadhich

Starting from Bunge's (1977) scientific ontology, we expose a materialistic relational theory of space-time, that carries out the program initiated by Leibniz, and provides a protophysical basis consistent with any rigorous formulation of…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2011-10-04 Héctor Vucetich

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

A fundamental physical principle that has consequences for the topology of space-time is the principle of Einstein-Weyl causality. We show here that this may have implications on quantum mechanics, as well. Borchers and Sen have rigorously…

General Physics · Physics 2016-08-29 D. J. Bendaniel

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

Einstein spacetimes (that is vacuum spacetimes possibly with a non-zero cosmological constant {\Lambda}) with constant non-zero Weyl eigenvalus are considered. For type Petrov II & D this assumption allows one to prove that the non-repeated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Alan Barnes

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 study a host of spacetimes where the Weyl curvature may be expressed algebraically in terms of an Abelian field strength. These include Type D spacetimes in four and higher dimensions which obey a simple quadratic relation between the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Rashid Alawadhi , David S. Berman , Bill Spence

We study a class of higher dimensional warped Einstein spacetimes with one extra dimension. These were originally identified by Brinkmann as those Einstein spacetimes that can be mapped conformally on other Einstein spacetimes, and have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-08 Marcello Ortaggio , Vojtech Pravda , Alena Pravdova

A conservative extension of general relativity by integrable Weyl geometry is formulated, and a new class of cosmological models ({\em Weyl universes}) is introduced and studied. A short discussion of how these new models behave in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Erhard Scholz

It was recently found that, after performing a Weyl conformal transformation, the familiar analogy between black hole mechanics and black hole thermodynamics becomes ambiguous. It was argued that this fact can be traced back to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-16 Fayçal Hammad , Daniel Dijamco

We study the double-copy relation between classical solutions in gauge theory and gravity, focusing on four-dimensional vacuum metrics of algebraic type D, a class that includes several important solutions. We present a double copy of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Andres Luna , Ricardo Monteiro , Isobel Nicholson , Donal O'Connell

A conventional space-time diagram is $r-ct$ one, which satisfies the Minkowski geometry. This geometry conflict the intuition from the Euclid geometry. In this work an Euclid space-time diagram is proposed to describe relativistic world…

General Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 W. LiMing