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Families of conformal field theories are naturally endowed with a Riemannian geometry which is locally encoded by correlation functions of exactly marginal operators. We show that the curvature of such conformal manifolds can be computed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Bruno Balthazar , Clay Cordova

Field space geometry plays a central role within the Swampland Programme, most notably in the various Distance Conjectures. However, for gravitational EFTs, this geometry is not uniquely defined: one can cast the action in many synonymous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-02 Sotirios Karamitsos , Benjamin Muntz

Weyl's conformal gravity theory, which is considered as a compelling alternative to general relativity theory, has been claimed to describe the observed flat rotation curve feature of spiral galaxies without the need of invoking dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-12 Shubhrangshu Ghosh , Mahasweta Bhattacharya , Yanzi Sherpa , Arunava Bhadra

Motivated by an axiomatic approach to characterize space-time it is investigated a reformulation of Einstein's gravity where the pseudo-riemannian geometry is substituted by a Weyl one. It is presented the main properties of the Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-19 F. P. Poulis , J. M. Salim

We construct all possible Weyl invariant actions in $d=4$ for linearized spin three field in a general gravitational background. The first action is obtained as the square of the generalized Weyl tensor for a spin three gauge field in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Ruben Manvelyan , Gabriel Poghosyan

By a uniform and simple Weyl invariant coupling of scale and matter fields, we construct theories that unify massless, massive, and partially massless excitations. Masses are related to tractor Weyl weights, and Breitenlohner-Freedman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 A. R. Gover , A. Shaukat , A. Waldron

Quantum field theory in curved spacetime may be defined either through a manifestly unitary canonical approach or via the manifestly covariant path integral formalism. For gauge theories, these two approaches have produced conflicting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-17 William Donnelly , Aron C. Wall

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 extended-BMS algebra of asymptotically flat spacetime contains an SO(3,1) subgroup that acts by conformal transformations on the celestial sphere. It is of interest to study the representations of this subgroup associated with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-16 Chang Liu , David A. Lowe

According to the theory of unimodular relativity developed by Anderson and Finkelstein, the equations of general relativity with a cosmological constant are composed of two independent equations, one which determines the null-cone structure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Davis Bock

The conformal-to-Einstein operator is a conformally invariant linear overdetermined differential operator whose non-vanishing solutions correspond to Einstein metrics within a conformal class. We construct compatibility complexes for this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Igor Khavkine , Josef Šilhan

We introduce a new Weyl-invariant and generally-covariant vector-tensor theory with higher derivatives. This theory can be induced by extending the mimetic construction to vector fields of conformal weight four. We demonstrate that in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-03 Pavel Jiroušek , Alexander Vikman

We study quantum corrections in the earlier proposed string theory, which is based on Weyl invariant purely extrinsic curvature action. At one-loop level it remains Weyl invariant irrespective of the dimension D of the embedding spacetime.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Savvidy , R. Manvelyan

The theme of this work is that the theory of charged particles in a uniform magnetic field can be generalized to a large class of operators if one uses an extended a class of Weyl operators which we call "Landau--Weyl pseudodifferential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-10-22 Maurice de Gosson , Franz Luef

We present a general method of deriving the effective action for conformal anomalies in any even dimension, which satisfies the Wess-Zumino consistency condition by construction. The method relies on defining the coboundary operator of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Pawel O. Mazur , Emil Mottola

Noncommutative field theories are a class of theories beyond the standard model of elementary particle physics. Their importance may be summarized in two facts. Firstly as field theories on noncommutative spacetimes they come with natural…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-24 Earnest Akofor

We consider the structure and physical properties of specific classes of neutron, quark, and Bose-Einstein Condensate stars in the conformally invariant Weyl geometric gravity theory. The basic theory is derived from the simplest…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-12 Zahra Haghani , Tiberiu Harko

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

A crucial property of Weyl gravity is its conformal invariance. It is shown how this gauge symmetry is exactly reflected by the two constraints in the Hamiltonian framework. Since the spatial 3-metric is one of the configuration variables,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-26 Qian Chen , Yongge Ma

We have examined quantum theories of electric magnetic duality invariant vector fields enjoying classical conformal invariance in 4-dimensional flat spacetime. We extend Dirac's argument about "the conditions for a quantum field theory to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Sung-Pil Moon , Sang-Jin Lee , Ji-Hye Lee , Jae-Hyuk Oh