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The problem of characterizing conformally Einstein manifolds by tensorial conditions has been tackled recently in papers by M. Listing, and in work by A. R. Gover and P. Nurowski. Their results apply to metrics satisfying a "non-degeneracy"…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jesse Alt

We present a geometric construction and characterization of $2n$-dimensional split-signature conformal structures endowed with a twistor spinor with integrable kernel. The construction is regarded as a modification of the conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-12 Matthias Hammerl , Katja Sagerschnig , Josef Šilhan , Vojtěch Žádník

A new 8-dim conformal gauging solves the auxiliary field problem and eliminates unphysical size change from Weyl's electromagnetic theory. We derive the Maurer-Cartan structure equations and find the zero curvature solutions for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 James T. Wheeler

This is a survey on quaternion Hermitian Weyl (locally conformally quaternion K\"ahler) and hyperhermitian Weyl (locally conformally hyperk\"ahler) manifolds. These geometries appear by requesting the compatibility of some quaternion…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Liviu Ornea

We determine the local structure of all pseudo-Riemannian manifolds $(M,g)$ in dimensions $n\ge4$ whose Weyl conformal tensor $W$ is parallel and has rank 1 when treated as an operator acting on exterior 2-forms at each point. If one fixes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-11-30 Andrzej Derdzinski , Witold Roter

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

It is generalized Weyl conformal curvature tensor in the case of a conformal mappings of a generalized Riemannian space in this paper. Moreover, it is found universal generalizations of it without any additional assumption. A method used in…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-11-07 Nenad O. Vesic

We study the electromagnetic properties of Weyl semimetals with strong interactions. Focusing on a single Weyl cone in the band structure, we induce strong interactions by coupling the Weyl fermion with a tunable coupling constant $g_f$ to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-11 V. P. J. Jacobs , Panagiotis Betzios , Umut Gursoy , H. T. C. Stoof

Weyl semimetals are a topological phase of matter that have drawn recent interest and have been suggested as a possible phase of the pyrochlore irridates, among other materials. Here, we compute the magneto-optical response of an isolated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-28 Phillip E. C. Ashby , J. P. Carbotte

We provide a gauge-invariant theory of gravitation in the context of Weyl Integrable Space-Times. After making a brief review of the theory's postulates, we carefully define the observers' proper-time and point out its relation with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-31 F. P. Poulis , J. M. Salim

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

We seek a rational route to large-deformation, thermo-mechanical modeling of solids with metrical defects. It assumes the reference and deformed geometries to be of the Weyl type and introduces the Weyl one-form -- an additional set of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-16 Bensingh Dhas , Arun R Srinivasa , Debasish Roy

We provide the full classification, in arbitrary even and odd dimensions, of global conformal invariants, i.e., scalar densities in the spacetime metric and its derivatives that are invariant, possibly up to a total derivative, under local…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-05 Nicolas Boulanger , Jordan François , Serge Lazzarini

Field space geometry plays a central role within the Swampland Programme, most notably in the various Distance Conjectures. However, for gravitational EFTs, this geometry is not uniquely defined: one can cast the action in many synonymous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-02 Sotirios Karamitsos , Benjamin Muntz

The Weyl potential, which is the sum of the spatial and temporal distortions of the Universe's geometry, provides a direct way of testing the theory of gravity and the validity of the $\Lambda$CDM (Lambda Cold Dark Matter) model. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-14 Isaac Tutusaus , Camille Bonvin , Nastassia Grimm

Instead of the scalar "dilaton" field that is usually adopted to construct conformally invariant Lagrangians for gravitation, we here propose a hybrid construction, involving both a complex dilaton scalar and a Weyl gauge-vector, in accord…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-08 Hans C. Ohanian

We use the ambient space construction, in which spacetime is mapped into a special lightcone of a higher dimensional manifold, to derive the integrable terms of the trace anomaly in even dimensions. We argue that the natural topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-17 Gregorio Paci , Omar Zanusso

The photogalvanic effect -- a rectified current induced by light irradiation -- requires the intrinsic symmetry of the medium to be sufficiently low, which strongly limits candidate materials for this effect. In this work we explore how in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 J. F. Steiner , A. V. Andreev , M. Breitkreiz

Magneto-optical studies of Weyl semimetals have been proposed as a versatile tool for observing low-energy Weyl fermions in candidate materials including the chiral Landau level. However, previous theoretical results have been restricted to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-18 Marcus Stålhammar , Jorge Larana-Aragon , Johannes Knolle , Emil J. Bergholtz

A projective structure is Weyl metrizable if it has a representative that preserves a conformal structure. We interpret Weyl metrizability of 3-dimensional projective structures as certain 5-dimensional nondegenerate CR submanifolds in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Omid Makhmali