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Higher-order curvature corrections involving the conformally-invariant Weyl-squared action have played a role in two recent investigations of four-dimensional gravity; in critical gravity, where it is added to the standard cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-02 H. Lu , Yi Pang , C. N. Pope

We point out a new phenomenon which seems to be generic in 4d effective theories of scalar fields coupled to Einstein gravity, when applied to cosmology. A lift of such theories to a Weyl-invariant extension allows one to define classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Itzhak Bars , Shih-Hung Chen , Paul J. Steinhardt , Neil Turok

We discuss comparatively local versus gauged Weyl symmetry beyond Standard Model (SM) and Einstein gravity and their geometric interpretation. The SM and Einstein gravity admit a natural embedding in Weyl integrable geometry which is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-12 D. M. Ghilencea , C. T. Hill

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

In this paper we revisit the motivation and construction of a unified theory of gravity and electromagnetism, following Weyl's insights regarding the appealing potential connection between the gauge invariance of electromagnetism and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-13 Carlos Barceló , Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Luis J. Garay

This paper presents three aspects by which the Weyl geometric generalization of Riemannian geometry, and of Einstein gravity, sheds light on actual questions of physics and its philosophical reflection. After introducing the theory's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-28 Erhard Scholz

In this paper we apply the symmetry principle in order to search for an alternative unified explanation of several cosmological puzzles such as the present stage of accelerated expansion of the Universe and the Hubble tension issue, among…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-13 Israel Quiros

We present a new formulation for the canonical approach to conformal (Weyl-squared) gravity and its extension by the Einstein-Hilbert term and a nonminimally coupled scalar field. For this purpose we use a unimodular decomposition of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-19 Claus Kiefer , Branislav Nikolic

We construct a Weyl x SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y invariant theory by extending four-dimensional Weyl quadratic gravity with Weyl-invariant scalar, fermion, Yukawa and gauge sectors. The quadratic structure (R^tilde - mu^2 |phi|^2)^2 allows the Weyl…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-06 Hao-Qian Peng , Yun-Tao Gu , Yu-Xiao Liu

We investigate if a recently introduced formulation of general relativity on a Weyl-integrable geometry, contains cosmological solutions exhibiting acceleration in the present cosmic expansion. We derive the general conditions to have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Ricardo Aguila , José Edgar Madriz Aguilar , Claudia Moreno , Mauricio Bellini

We construct the analogue of the Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) action in Weyl conformal geometry in $d$ dimensions and obtain a general theory of gravity with Weyl gauge symmetry of dilatations (Weyl-DBI). This is done in the Weyl gauge covariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 D. M. Ghilencea

This paper is motivated by the non-linear stability problem for the expanding region of Kerr de Sitter cosmologies in the context of Einstein's equations with positive cosmological constant. We show that under dynamically realistic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Volker Schlue

Already the simplest examples of Weyl geometry, the static space-time models of general relativity modified by an additional time-homogeneous Weylian length connection lead to beautiful cosmological models (Weyl universes) . The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Erhard Scholz

We study the theory of Weyl conformal gravity with matter degrees of freedom in a conformally invariant interaction. Specifically, we consider a triplet of scalar fields and SO(3) non-abelian gauge fields, i.e. the Georgi-Glashow model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-07 A. Edery , Luca Fabbri , M. B. Paranjape

We consider a gravitational model in a Weyl-Cartan space-time, in which the Weitzenb\"{o}ck condition of the vanishing of the sum of the curvature and torsion scalar is also imposed. Moreover, a kinetic term for the torsion is also included…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-13 Zahra Haghani , Tiberiu Harko , Hamid Reza Sepangi , Shahab Shahidi

Equations for cosmological evolution are formulated in a Weyl invariant formalism to take into account possible Weyl anomalies. Near two dimensions, the renormalized cosmological term leads to a nonlocal energy-momentum tensor and a slowly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Atish Dabholkar

We study the particle spectrum and the unitarity of the generic n-dimensional Weyl-invariant quadratic curvature gravity theories around their (anti-)de Sitter [(A)dS] and flat vacua. Weyl symmetry is spontaneously broken in (A)dS and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-13 M. Reza Tanhayi , Suat Dengiz , Bayram Tekin

It is shown that in the quadratic gravity based on Weyl's conformal geometry, the Planck mass scale can be generated from quantum effects of the gravitational field and the Weyl gauge field via the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism where a local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-24 Ichiro Oda

We compute the evolution of cosmological perturbations in a recently proposed Weyl-symmetric theory of two scalar fields with oppositely-signed conformal couplings to Einstein gravity. It is motivated from the minimal conformal extension of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-08 Marius Oltean , Robert Brandenberger

We consider a mimetic type extension of the Weyl geometric gravity theory, by assuming that the metric of the space-time manifold can be parameterized in terms of a scalar field, called the mimetic field. The action of the model is obtained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-19 Daria-Ioana Visa , Tiberiu Harko , Shahab Shahidi