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We propose new models of an `affine' theory of gravity in $D$-dimensional space-times with symmetric connections. They are based on ideas of Weyl, Eddington and Einstein and, in particular, on Einstein's proposal to specify the space - time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 A. T. Filippov

On a $3$D manifold, a Weyl geometry consists of pairs $(g, A) =$ (metric, $1$-form) modulo gauge $\widehat{g} = {\rm e}^{2\varphi} g$, $\widehat{A} = A + {\rm d}\varphi$. In 1943, Cartan showed that every solution to the Einstein-Weyl…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Joël Merker , Paweł Nurowski

In the standard Einstein's theory the exterior gravitational field of any static and axially symmetric stellar object can be described by means of a single function from which we obtain a metric into a four-dimensional space-time. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-19 J. L. Hernández-Pastora

One of the important extensions of Riemann geometry is Weyl geometry, which is essentially based on the ideas of conformal invariance and nonmetricity. A similar non-Riemannian geometry was proposed by Erwin Schr\"{o}dinger in the late…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-10 Lei Ming , Shi-Dong Liang , Hong-Hao Zhang , Tiberiu Harko

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

One may write the Maxwell equations in terms of two gauge potentials, one electric and one magnetic, by demanding that their field strengths should be dual to each other. This requirement is the condition of twisted self-duality. It can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-01 Claudio Bunster , Marc Henneaux

We investigate the asymptotic symmetries of three-dimensional AdS Einstein gravity in the Weyl-Fefferman-Graham gauge, which is a generalization of the Fefferman-Graham gauge inducing a Weyl connection as part of the boundary structure. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-15 Luca Ciambelli , Arnaud Delfante , Romain Ruzziconi , Céline Zwikel

We investigate the four-derivative free Weyl action for two-column mixed-symmetry field that makes use of maximal gauge symmetries. In flat space, the action can be uniquely determined from gauge and Weyl (trace shift) symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-25 Euihun Joung , Karapet Mkrtchyan

We prove that autoparallel curves associated with a torsion-free but not necessarily metric-compatible affine connection can be derived from an action principle. We explicitly construct the action functional and show by standard variational…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Lavinia Heisenberg

We derive a manifestly duality-symmetric formulation of the action principle for conformal gravity linearized around Minkowski space-time. The analysis is performed in the Hamiltonian formulation, the fourth-order character of the equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 Hapé Fuhri Snethlage , Sergio Hörtner

We consider the (gauged) Weyl gravity action, quadratic in the scalar curvature ($\tilde R$) and in the Weyl tensor ($\tilde C_{\mu\nu\rho\sigma}$) of the Weyl conformal geometry. In the absence of matter fields, this action has spontaneous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-15 D. M. Ghilencea

The Einstein-Hilbert action for general relativity is not well posed in terms of the metric $g_{ab}$ as a dynamical variable. There have been many proposals to obtain an well posed action principle for general relativity, e.g., addition of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-16 Sumanta Chakraborty

A new method for the construction of conformally invariant equations in an arbitrary four dimensional (pseudo-) Riemannian space is presented. This method uses the Weyl geometry as a tool and exploits the natural conformal invariance we can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-01 Sofiane Faci

The usual interpretation of Weyl geometry is modified in two senses. First, both the additive Weyl connection and its variation are treated as (1, 2) tensors under the action of Weyl covariant derivative. Second, a modified covariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-18 Fang-Fang Yuan , Yong-Chang Huang

We review recent developments in physical implications of Weyl conformal geometry. The associated Weyl quadratic gravity action is a gauge theory of the Weyl group of dilatations and Poincar\'e symmetry. Weyl conformal geometry is defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-05 D. M. Ghilencea

The classical action of quantum gravity, determined by renormalization, contains infinitely many independent couplings and can be expressed in different perturbatively equivalent ways. We organize it in a convenient form, which is based on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-14 Damiano Anselmi

A class of globally scale-invariant scalar-tensor theories have been proposed to be invariant under a larger class of transformations that take the form of local Weyl transformations supplemented by a restriction that the conformal factor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-16 Dražen Glavan , Ruggero Noris , Tom Zlosnik

Issuing from a geometry with nonmetricity and torsion we build up a classical theory of gravitation and electromagnetism. The theory is coordinate covariant as well Weyl-gauge covariant. Massless and massive photons, intrinsic electr. and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mark Israelit

We discuss the structure of nonlocal effective action generating the conformal anomaly in classically Weyl invariant theories in curved spacetime. By the procedure of conformal gauge fixing, selecting the metric representative on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-16 A. O. Barvinsky , W. Wachowski

The purpose of the present work is to extend the earlier results for asymptotically flat vacuum space-times to asymptotically flat solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations. Once again, in this case, we get a class of asymptotically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Ezra T. Newman , Gilberto Silva-Ortigoza