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We analyze gravitational theories with quadratic curvature terms, including the case of conformally invariant Weyl gravity, motivated by the intention to find a renormalizable theory of gravity in the ultraviolet region, yet yielding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-18 Josef Klusoň , Markku Oksanen , Anca Tureanu

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

We are interested in the evolution of a compressible fluid under its self-generated gravitational field. Assuming here Gowdy symmetry, we investigate the algebraic structure of the Euler equations satisfied by the mass density and velocity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-30 Bruno Le Floch , Philippe G. LeFloch

We investigate the Weyl space-time extension of general relativity (GR) for studying the FLRW cosmology through focusing and defocusing of the geodesic congruences. We have derived the equations of evolution for expansion, shear and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-06 Radouane Gannouji , Hemwati Nandan , Naresh Dadhich

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

In this paper, conformal invariant gravitation, based on Weyl geometry, is considered. In addition to the gravitational and matter action integrals, the interaction between the Weyl vector (entered in Weyl geometry) and the vector,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-29 Victor A. Berezin , Vyacheslav I. Dokuchaev

The evolution of 4-dimensional and (4+d)-dimensional (d=1,2) cosmological models based on the integrable Weyl geometry are considered numerically both for empty space-time and for scalar field with non minimal coupling with gravity.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 V. N. Melnikov , M. Yu. Konstantinov

We study the Einstein-aether theory in Weyl integrable geometry. The scalar field which defines the Weyl affine connection is introduced in the gravitational field equation. We end up with an Einstein-aether scalar field model where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-30 Andronikos Paliathanasis , Genly Leon , John D. Barrow

Consistency of Weyl natural gauge, Lorentz gauge and nonlinear gauge is studied in Weyl geometry. Field equations in generalized Weyl-Dirac theory show that spinless electron and photon are topological defects. Statistical metric and…

General Physics · Physics 2020-11-17 S. C. Tiwari

We solve the nonlinear evolution of pressureless, irrotational density fluctuations in a perturbed Robertson-Walker spacetime using a new Lagrangian method based on the velocity gradient and gravity gradient tensors. Borrowing results from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Edmund Bertschinger , Bhuvnesh Jain

We investigate the coupling of matter to geometry in conformal quadratic Weyl gravity, by assuming a coupling term of the form $L_m\tilde{R}^2$, where $L_m$ is the ordinary matter Lagrangian, and $\tilde{R}$ is the Weyl scalar. The coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-30 Tiberiu Harko , Shahab Shahidi

We investigate the field equations of the conformally invariant models of gravity with curvature-matter coupling, constructed in Weyl geometry, by using the Palatini formalism. We consider the case in which the Lagrangian is given by the…

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

This study investigates the possibility of a homogeneous and isotropic cosmological solution within the context of the Maxwell-Weyl gauge theory of gravity. To achieve this, we utilize the Einstein-Yang-Mills theory as an analogy and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-26 Salih Kibaroğlu

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

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 Lorentz violating scalar field cosmological model given by the modified Einstein-aether theory defined in Weyl integrable geometry. The existence of exact and analytic solutions is investigated for the case of a spatially flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 Andronikos Paliathanasis , Genly Leon

We investigate the impact of conformal transformations on the physical properties of solution trajectories in nonmetricity gravity. Specifically, we explore the phase-space and reconstruct the cosmological history of a spatially flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-19 Nikolaos Dimakis , Kevin Duffy , Alex Giacomini , Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik , Genly Leon , Andronikos Paliathanasis

The paper deals with the Weyl equation which is the massless Dirac equation. We study the Weyl equation in the stationary setting, i.e. when the the spinor field oscillates harmonically in time. We suggest a new geometric interpretation of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-03-27 Olga Chervova , Dmitri Vassiliev

We explore the cosmological viability of a theory of gravity defined by the Lagrangian $f(\mathcal{R})=\mathcal{R}^{n\left(\mathcal{R}\right)}$ in the Palatini formalism, where $n\left(\mathcal{R}\right)$ is a dimensionless function of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-05 Daniel Coumbe

We show that if the masses of timelike fields are point-dependent quantities transforming under conformal transformations as $m\rightarrow\Omega^{-1}m$, so the energy density of perfect fluids transforms as $\rho\rightarrow\Omega^{-4}\rho$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Israel Quiros