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A model for the dark halos of galaxy clusters, based on the Weyl geometric scalar tensor theory of gravity (WST) with a MOND-like approximation, is proposed. It is uniquely determined by the baryonic mass distribution of hot gas and stars.…

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In this paper we explore the physical consequences of assuming Weyl invariance of the laws of gravity from the classical standpoint exclusively. Actual Weyl invariance requires to replace the underlying Riemannian geometrical structure of…

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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…

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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

Weyl conformal geometry may play a role in early cosmology where effective theory at short distances becomes conformal. Weyl conformal geometry also has a built-in geometric Stueckelberg mechanism: it is broken spontaneously to Riemannian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 D. M. Ghilencea

Recently, it has been pointed out that dimensionless actions in four dimensional curved spacetime possess a symmetry which goes beyond scale invariance but is smaller than full Weyl invariance. This symmetry was dubbed {\it restricted Weyl…

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Weyl-invariant extensions of three-dimensional New Massive Gravity, generic n-dimensional Quadratic Curvature Gravity theories and three-dimensional Born-Infeld gravity theory are analyzed in details. As required by Weyl-invariance, the…

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We consider the internal structure and the physical properties of specific classes of neutron, quark and Bose-Einstein Condensate stars in the hybrid metric-Palatini gravity theory, which is a combination of the metric and Palatini $f(R)$…

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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

We extend our program, of coupling theories to scale in order to make their Weyl invariance manifest, to include interacting theories, fermions and supersymmetric theories. The results produce mass terms coinciding with the standard ones…

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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

It is shown that gravitation naturally emerges from the standard model of particle physics if local scale invariance is imposed in the context of a single conformal (Weyl-symmetric) theory. Gravitation is then conformally-related to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-15 Meir Shimon

We study inflation in Weyl gravity. The original Weyl quadratic gravity, based on Weyl conformal geometry, is a theory invariant under Weyl symmetry of (gauged) local scale transformations. In this theory Planck scale ($M$) emerges as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 D. M. Ghilencea

The Weyl type $f(Q,T)$ modified gravity theory is an extension of the $f(Q)$ and $f(Q,T)$ type theories, where $T$ is the trace of the matter energy-momentum tensor, and the scalar non-metricity $Q$ is represented in its standard Weyl form,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-16 Jian Ge , Lei Ming , Shi-Dong Liang , Hong-Hao Zhang , Tiberiu Harko

Weyl invariant gravity has been investigated as the fundamental theory of the vector inflation. Accordingly, we consider a Weyl invariant extension of Dirac-Born-Infeld type gravity. We find that an appropriate choice of the metric removes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-02 Takuya Maki , Nahomi Kan , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

We consider conformally invariant form of the actions in Einstein, Weyl, Einstein-Cartan and Einstein-Cartan-Weyl space in general dimensions($>2$) and investigate the relations among them. In Weyl space, the observational consistency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-23 Tae Yoon Moon , Joohan Lee , Phillial Oh

In this paper, we have studied the dynamical aspects of the cosmological model of the Universe in the Weyl type $f(Q,T)$ gravity, which is an extension of symmetric teleparallel gravity. The non-metricity scalar $Q$ has been expressed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-02 Rahul Bhagat , S. A. Narawade , B. Mishra

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

This paper presents the detailed, standard treatment of a simple, gauge invariant action for Weyl and Weyl-like Cartan geometries outlined in a previous paper. In addition to the familiar scalar curvature squared and Maxwell terms, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-26 J. E. Rankin

A massless Weyl-invariant dynamics of a scalar, a Dirac spinor, and electromagnetic fields is formulated in a Weyl space, $W_4$, allowing for conformal rescalings of the metric and of all fields with nontrivial Weyl weight together with the…

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