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We consider the recently introduced mimetic gravity, which is a Weyl-symmetric extension of the General Relativity and which can play a role of an imperfect fluid-like Dark Matter with a small sound speed. In this paper we discuss in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-31 Katrin Hammer , Alexander Vikman

We show that the Szekeres system with cosmological constant admits a sufficient number of conservation laws, which allow to claim the integrability of the system. The main novelty in this investigation is that we find that the unique…

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We construct a class of static, axially symmetric solutions representing razor-thin disks of matter in an Integrable Weyl-Dirac theory proposed in Found. Phys. 29, 1303 (1999). The main differences between these solutions and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-13 Ronaldo S. S. Vieira , Patricio S. Letelier

In this paper, we analyse the well-posedness of the initial value formulation for particular kinds of geometric scalar-tensor theories of gravity, which are based on a Weyl integrable space-time. We will show that, within a frame-invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-09 R. Avalos , I. P. Lobo , T. Sanomiya , C. Romero

We investigate a class of horizonless solutions in Einstein-Weyl gravity, corresponding to the so-called attractive naked singularities of the (-2,2) type. In contrast to General Relativity, where naked singularities are generically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-14 Alfio M. Bonanno , Samuele Silveravalle , Andrea Spina

The general structure of the spherically symmetric solutions in the Weyl conformal gravity is described. The corresponding Bach equations are derived for the special type of metrics, which can be considered as the representative of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-15 V. A. Berezin , V. I. Dokuchaev , Yu. N. Eroshenko

A generalized Weyl integrable geometry (GWIG) is obtained from simultaneous affine transformations of the tangent and cotangent bundles of a (pseudo)-Riemannian manifold. In comparison with the classical Weyl integrable geometry (CWIG),…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 Fereidoun Sabetghadam

We study the solutions of the Einstein equations in the presence of a thick infinite slab with constant energy density. When there is an isotropy in the plane of the slab, we find an explicit exact solution that matches with the Rindler and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-08 Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik , Tereza Vardanyan

We investigate cosmological models in a recently proposed geometrical theory of gravity, in which the scalar field appears as part of the space-time geometry. We extend the previous theory to include a scalar potential in the action. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-14 M. L. Pucheu , F. A. P. Alves-Junior , A. B. Barreto , C. Romero

The spherically symmetric solutions in Weyl gravity interacting with U(1) or SU(2) gauge fields are examined. It is shown that these solutions are conformally equivalent to an infinite flux tube with constant (color) electric and magnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 V. Dzhunushaliev , H. -J. Schmidt

We study a class of shear-free, homogeneous but anisotropic cosmological models with imperfect matter sources in the context of f(R) gravity. We show that the anisotropic stresses are related to the electric part of the Weyl tensor in such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-01 Amare Abebe , Davood Momeni , Ratbay Myrzakulov

In this paper we consider the Long-Wavelength Approximation Scheme (LWAS) in the framework of the covariant fluid approach to general relativistic dynamics, specializing to the particular case of irrotational dust matter. We discuss the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Bruni , Carlos F. Sopuerta

We focus on the Penrose's Weyl Curvature Hypothesis in a general framework encompassing many specific models discussed in literature. We introduce a candidate density for the Weyl entropy in pure spacetime perfect fluid regions and show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-21 Francesco Belgiorno , Giovanni Catino

The stationary cosmological model without closed timelike curves of G\"odel type is obtained for the ideal dust matter source within the framework of the teleparallel gravity. For a specific choice of the teleparallel gravity parameters,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu. N. Obukhov , T. Vargas

We study self-consistent D=4 gravity-matter systems coupled to a new class of Weyl-conformally invariant lightlike branes (WILL}-branes). The latter serve as material and charged source for gravity and electromagnetism. Further, due to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Eduardo Guendelman , Alexander Kaganovich , Emil Nissimov , Svetlana Pacheva

We analyze the stationary, uncharged, rotating, vacuum solution to Weyl conformal gravity. We elucidate the causal and ergoregion structure of the spacetimes found in the parameter space of the metric for positive mass. These are then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-29 Miguel Yulo Asuncion , Keith Horne , Reinosuke Kusano , Martin Dominik

We show that Spatially Inhomogeneous (SI) and Irrotational dust models admit a \emph{6-dimensional algebra } of \emph{Intrinsic Conformal Vector Fields} (ICVFs) $\mathbf{X}_{\alpha }$ satisfying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-13 Pantelis S. Apostolopoulos

We study exact solutions of the infinite derivative gravity with null radiation which belong to the class of almost universal Weyl type III/N Kundt spacetimes. This class is defined by the property that all rank-2 tensors ${B_{ab}}$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Ivan Kolář , Tomáš Málek , Anupam Mazumdar

We study a universe filled with dust-like matter in the form of discrete inhomogeneities (e.g., galaxies and their groups and clusters) and two sets of perfect fluids with linear and nonlinear equations of state, respectively. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-21 Maxim Eingorn , Claus Kiefer , Alexander Zhuk

This article analyzes the present anomalies of cosmology from the point of view of integrable Weyl geometry. It uses P.A.M. Dirac's proposal for a weak extension of general relativity, with some small adaptations. Simple models with…

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