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After a long technical and consequently philosophical disgression about the necessity of the construction presented in this book, a logically consistent and precise theory of quantum gravity is presented. The construction of this theory…

General Physics · Physics 2013-05-07 Johan Noldus

We study the gravity action built from two gauge fields corresponding to the generators of the conformal group. Starting with the action from which one can obtain Einstein gravity and conformal gravity upon imposing suitable constraints, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-15 I. Lovrekovic

Emergent modified gravity has shown that the canonical formulation of general relativity gives rise to a larger class of covariant modifications than action-based approaches, so far in symmetry-reduced models. This outcome is made possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-29 Martin Bojowald , Manuel Diaz , Erick I. Duque

We show that the new type of "non-metric" gravity theories introduced independently by Bengtsson and Krasnov can in fact be reexpressed explicitely as a metrical theory coupled to an auxiliary field. We unravel why such theories possess…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Laurent Freidel

The geometrical nature of gravity emerges from the universality dictated by the equivalence principle. In the usual formulation of General Relativity, the geometrisation of the gravitational interaction is performed in terms of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-19 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Lavinia Heisenberg , Tomi S. Koivisto

Based on local gauge invariance, four different kinds of fundamental interactions in Nature are unified in a theory which has $SU(3)_c \otimes SU(2)_L \otimes U(1) \otimes_s Gravitational Gauge Group$ gauge symmetry. In this approach,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Ning Wu

We discuss a possible framework for the construction of a quantum gravity theory where the principles of QFT and general relativity can coexist harmonically. Moreover, in order to fix the correct gauge group of the theory we study the most…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 R. F. Sobreiro , V. J. Vasquez Otoya

Quantization of Free Fields: The non-interacting field belonging to a new {\bf SO(1,3)\/} gauge field theory equivalent to General Relativity is canonically quantized in the Lorentz gauge and the physical Fock space for free gauge particles…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-20 C Wiesendanger

We consider a theory of gravity with a hidden extra-dimension and metric-dependent torsion. A set of physically motivated constraints are imposed on the geometry so that the torsion stays confined to the extra-dimension and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Karthik H. Shankar , Anand Balaraman , Kameshwar C. Wali

A gauge theory of quantum gravity is formulated, in which an internal, field dependent metric is introduced which non-linearly realizes the gauge fields on the non-compact group $SL(2,C)$, while linearly realizing them on $SU(2)$.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Moffat

We generalize the scale invariant gravity by allowing a negative kinetic energy term for the classical scalar field. This gives birth to a new scalar-tensor theory of gravity, in which the scalar field is in fact an auxiliary field. For a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Shih-Yuin Lin , Kin-Wang Ng

A modified Mimetic gravity (MMG) is proposed as a generalization of general relativity. The model contain a physical metric which is function of an auxiliary (unphysical) metric and a Lyra's metric. We construct different kinds of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-07 Davood Momeni , Aziza Altaibayeva , Ratbay Myrzakulov

Four principles are proposed to underlie the quantum theory of gravity. We show that these suffice to recover the Einstein equations. We also suggest that MOND results from a modification of the classical equivalence principle, due to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-07 Lee Smolin

The normalization of the quantum corrected action is resolving the equation divergent dependence of the cutoff towards the system apparent result in quantum gravity. Here we consider the normalization to Einstein R twice scalar action with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-25 Daiki Yamaguchi

Here we consider a metric-affine theory of gravity in which the gravitational Lagrangian is the scalar curvature. The matter action is allowed to depend also on the torsion and the nonmetricity, which are considered as the field variables…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-17 F. F. Faria

General Relativity (GR) remains the cornerstone of gravitational physics, providing remarkable success in describing a wide range of astrophysical and cosmological phenomena. However, several challenges underscore the urgent need to explore…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-12 Susobhan Mandal , S. Shankaranarayanan

Gravity is commonly thought of as one of the four force fields in nature. However, in standard formulations its mathematical structure is rather different from the Yang-Mills fields of particle physics that govern the electromagnetic, weak,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 H. F. Westman , T. G. Zlosnik

The equation of motion for test particles in $f(R)$ modified theories of gravity is derived. By considering an explicit coupling between an arbitrary function of the scalar curvature, $R$, and the Lagrangian density of matter, it is shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Orfeu Bertolami , Christian G. Boehmer , Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We explore the recently introduced modified Gauss-Bonnet gravity [1], $f(\mathcal{G},T)$ pragmatic with $\mathcal{G}$, the Gauss-Bonnet term, and ${T}$, the trace of the energy-momentum tensor. Noether symmetry approach has been used to…

General Physics · Physics 2017-01-31 M. Farasat Shamir , Mushtaq Ahmad

We explore the possibility of realizing a non-singular bounce in the early universe within the framework of modified gravity with spacetime torsion. In Einstein Cartan theory, torsion is embedded in the spacetime by adding an antisymmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Sonej Alam , Somasri Sen , Soumitra Sengupta