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The Weyl geometry promises potential applications in gravity and quantum mechanics. We study the relationships between the Weyl geometry, quantum entropy and quantum entanglement based on the Weyl geometry endowing the Euclidean metric. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-21 Shi-Dong Liang , Wenjing Huang

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

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 discuss the cosmological evolution of the Weyl conformal geometry and its associated Weyl quadratic gravity. The Einstein gravity (with a positive cosmological constant) is recovered in the spontaneously broken phase of Weyl gravity;…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-24 D. M. Ghilencea , T. Harko

In the theory of General Relativity, gravity is described by a metric which couples minimally to the fields representing matter. We consider here its "veiled" versions where the metric is conformally related to the original one and hence is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-19 Nathalie Deruelle , Misao Sasaki

Using Penrose diagrams the causal structure of the static spherically symmetric vacuum solution to conformal (Weyl) gravity is investigated. A striking aspect of the solution is an unexpected physical singularity at $r=0$ caused by a linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 A. Edery , M. B. Paranjape

We investigate the possibility that the observed behavior of test particles outside galaxies, which is usually explained by assuming the existence of dark matter, is the result of the dynamical evolution of particles in a Weyl type…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-18 Piyabut Burikham , Tiberiu Harko , Kulapant Pimsamarn , Shahab Shahidi

The Weyl geometric gravity theory, in which the gravitational action is constructed from the square of the Weyl curvature scalar and the strength of the Weyl vector, has been intensively investigated recently. The theory admits a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Mohsen Khodadi , Tiberiu Harko

We use a first-order energy quantity to prove a strengthened statement of uniqueness for the Ricci flow. One consequence of this statement is that if a complete solution on a noncompact manifold has uniformly bounded Ricci curvature, then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-30 Brett Kotschwar

Quantum Ricci curvature has been introduced recently as a new, geometric observable characterizing the curvature properties of metric spaces, without the need for a smooth structure. Besides coordinate invariance, its key features are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-30 N. Klitgaard , R. Loll

The issue of the transformations of units is treated, mainly, in a geometrical context. It is shown that Weyl-integrable geometry is a consistent framework for the formulation of the gravitational laws since the basic law on which this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Israel Quiros

In this paper, on 4-spheres equipped with Riemannian metrics we study some integral conformal invariants, the sign and size of which under Ricci flow characterize the standard 4-sphere. We obtain a conformal gap theorem, and for Yamabe…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-20 Sun-Yung Alice Chang , Eric Chen

Weyl gravity in the presence of a non-minimal matter-curvature coupling is presented. Some properties arising from the non-metricity give rise to a second order theory whose vacuum is compatible with a cosmological constant, under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 Cláudio Gomes , Orfeu Bertolami

A theory of gravitation is proposed, modeled after the notion of a Ricci flow. In addition to the metric an independent volume enters as a fundamental geometric structure. Einstein gravity is included as a limiting case. Despite being a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Wolfgang Graf

A unitary gravitational action up to third order of curvature in which respects to the holographic $a-$theorem has been constructed in \cite{myers}. In particular, its third order term is just the Weyl-cubed term in four dimensions. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-13 Mohammad A. Ganjali

In this paper, two things are done. (i) Using cohomological techniques, we explore the consistent deformations of linearized conformal gravity in 4 dimensions. We show that the only possibility involving no more than 4 derivatives of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-27 N. Boulanger , M. Henneaux

The inclusion of the Weyl squared term in the gravitational action is one of the most simple, yet non trivial modifications to General Relativity at high energies. Nevertheless the study of the spherically-symmetric vacuum solutions of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-29 Alfio Bonanno , Samuele Silveravalle , Alessandro Zuccotti

We consider numerical black hole solutions in the Weyl conformal geometry, and its associated conformally invariant Weyl quadratic gravity. In this model Einstein gravity (with a positive cosmological constant) is recovered in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-18 Jin-Zhao Yang , Shahab Shahidi , Tiberiu Harko

Vacuum cosmological models are considered in the context of a multidimensional theory of gravity with integrable Weyl geometry. A family of exact solutions with a chain of internal spaces is obtained. Models with one internal space are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 K. A. Bronnikov , V. N. Melnikov

We investigate the evolution of different measures of ``Gravitational Entropy'' in Bianchi type I and Lema\^itre-Tolman universe models. A new quantity behaving in accordance with the second law of thermodynamics is introduced. We then go…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Gron , S. Hervik