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We determine the most general solution of the five-dimensional vacuum Einstein equation, allowing for a cosmological constant, with (i) a Weyl tensor that is type II or more special in the classification of Coley et al., (ii) a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-14 Gabriel Bernardi de Freitas , Mahdi Godazgar , Harvey S. Reall

We consider a class of exponentials in the Weyl-Heisenberg algebra with exponents of type at most linear in coordinates and arbitrary functions of momenta. They are expressed in terms of normal ordering where coordinates stand to the left…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-16 Stjepan Meljanac , Rina Štrajn

We aim at extending the definition of the Weyl calculus to an infinite dimensional setting, by replacing the phase space $ \mathbb{R}^{2n}$ by $B^2$, where $(i,H,B)$ is an abstract Wiener space. A first approach is to generalize the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-05 Laurent Amour , Lisette Jager , Jean Nourrigat

We study the evolution of the Weyl curvature invariant in all spatially homogeneous universe models containing a non-tilted gamma-law perfect fluid. We investigate all the Bianchi and Thurston type universe models and calculate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 John D. Barrow , Sigbjorn Hervik

In this manuscript, a conformally invariant theory of gravitation in the context of metric measure space is studied. The proposed action is invariant under both diffeomorphism and conformal transformations. Using the variational method, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-06 Nafiseh Rahmanpour , Hossein Shojaie

We give an explicit local classification of conformally equivalent but oppositely oriented Kaehler metrics on a 4-manifold which are toric with respect to a common 2-torus action. In the generic case, these structures have an intriguing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Vestislav Apostolov , David M. J. Calderbank , Paul Gauduchon

We prove that a compact Einstein manifold of dimension $n\geq 4$ with nonnegative curvature operator of the second kind is a constant curvature space by Bochner technique. Moreover, we obtain that compact Einstein manifolds of dimension…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Zhi-Lin Dai , Hai-Ping Fu

A massless Weyl-invariant dynamics of a scalar, a Dirac spinor, and electromagnetic fields is formulated in a Weyl space, $W_4$, allowing for conformal rescalings of the metric and of all fields with nontrivial Weyl weight together with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 W. Drechsler , H. Tann

Seiberg-Witten theory leads to a delicate interplay between Riemannian geometry and smooth topology in dimension four. In particular, the scalar curvature of any metric must satisfy certain non-trivial estimates if the manifold in question…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Claude LeBrun

We argue that the Weyl coordinates and the rod-structure employed to construct static axisymmetric solutions in higher dimensional Einstein gravity can be generalized to the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory. As a concrete application of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-21 Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Eugen Radu

We construct explicit cohomogeneity two metrics of G_2 holonomy, which are foliated by twistor spaces. The twistor spaces are S^2 bundles over four-dimensional Bianchi IX Einstein metrics with self-dual (or anti-self-dual) Weyl tensor.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 M. Cvetic , G. W. Gibbons , H. Lu , C. N. Pope

We discuss the Kaluza-Klein reduction of spaces with (anti-)self-dual Weyl tensor and point out the emergence of the Einstein-Weyl equations for the reduction from four to three dimensions. As a byproduct we get a simple expression for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Grumiller , R. Jackiw

Holonomy algebras of Lorentzian Weyl spin manifolds with weighted parallel spinors are found. For Lorentzian Weyl manifolds admitting recurrent null vector fields are introduced special local coordinates similar to Kundt and Walker ones.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Andrei Dikarev , Anton S. Galaev

A relation between gravity on Poisson manifolds proposed in arXiv:1508.05706 and Einstein gravity is investigated. The compatibility of the Poisson and Riemann structures defines a unique connection, the contravariant Levi-Civita…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-19 Yukio Kaneko , Hisayoshi Muraki , Satoshi Watamura

We study the Weyl vector fields which can play an important role in quantum gravity. The metric obtains its dynamical content after dynamical symmetry breaking in the phase of the effective Einstein gravity which is induced by quantum Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-28 B. S. Park , D. G. Pak

We apply the theory of Weyl structures for parabolic geometries developed by A. Cap and J. Slovak in to compute, for a quaternionic contact (qc) structure, the Weyl connection associated to a choice of scale, i.e. to a choice of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-17 Jesse Alt

We consider conformally invariant form of the actions in Einstein, Weyl, Einstein-Cartan and Einstein-Cartan-Weyl space in general dimensions($>2$) and investigate the relations among them. In Weyl space, the observational consistency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-23 Tae Yoon Moon , Joohan Lee , Phillial Oh

It is generalized Weyl conformal curvature tensor in the case of a conformal mappings of a generalized Riemannian space in this paper. Moreover, it is found universal generalizations of it without any additional assumption. A method used in…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-11-07 Nenad O. Vesic

This paper relates the boundary term in the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet formula on 4-manifolds M with the renormalized volume V, as defined in the AdS/CFT correspondence, for asymptotically hyperbolic Einstein metrics on M. In addition, we compute…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael T. Anderson

Conformal Weyl and Cotton tensors are dimensionally reduced by a Kaluza-Klein procedure. Explicit formulas are given for reducing from four and three dimensions to three and two dimensions, respectively. When the higher dimensional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-25 Roman Jackiw