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It is shown that in a quadratic gravity based on Weyl's conformal geometry, not only the Einstein-Hilbert action emerges but also a Weyl gauge field becomes massive in the Weyl gauge condition, $\tilde R = k$, for a Weyl gauge symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-04 Ichiro Oda

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

We consider an $f(Q,T)$ type gravity model in which the scalar non-metricity $Q_{\alpha \mu \nu}$ of the space-time is expressed in its standard Weyl form, and it is fully determined by a vector field $w_{\mu}$. The field equations of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-18 Yixin Xu , Tiberiu Harko , Shahab Shahidi , Shi-Dong Liang

In this paper we study the possibility of assigning a geometric structure to the Lie groups. It is shown the Poincar\'{e} and Weyl groups have geometrical structure of the Riemann-Cartan and Weyl space-time respectively. The geometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Nafiseh Rahmanpour , Nima Khosravi , Babak Vakili

Thanks to their interpretation as first order correction of General Relativity at high energies, quadratic theories of gravity gained much attention in recent times. Particular attention has been drawn to the Einstein-Weyl theory, where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-17 Samuele Silveravalle , Alessandro Zuccotti

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

We obtain exact black hole solutions for static and spherically symmetric sources in a Weyl conformal gauge theory of gravity. We consider a quadratic gravitational action built from the Weyl tensor within a dilation geometry. In a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-29 Leandro A. Lessa , Caio F. B. Macedo , Manoel M. Ferreira

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

We analyze the possibility that due to their superfluid properties some compact astrophysical objects may contain a significant part of their matter in the form of a Bose-Einstein condensate. To study the condensate we use the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 P. H. Chavanis , T. Harko

We review (non-supersymmetric) gauge theories of four-dimensional space-time symmetries and their quadratic action. The only true gauge theory of such a symmetry (with a physical gauge boson) that has an exact geometric interpretation,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-15 C. Condeescu , D. M. Ghilencea , A. Micu

We investigate the warm inflationary scenario in the Weyl geometric gravity theory, in which the action is constructed by adding matter to the simplest conformally invariant gravitational action in Weyl geometry. The $\tilde{R}^2$ theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Runhua Huang , Tiberiu Harko , Shi-Dong Liang , Hong-Hao Zhang , Lei Ming

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 study various classical aspects of the Weyl transverse (WTDiff) gravity in a general space-time dimension. First of all, we clarify a classical equivalence among three kinds of gravitational theories, those are, the conformally-invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Ichiro Oda

We develop the covariant phase space formulation of Weyl-transverse gravity (WTG) in the presence of general timelike and spacelike boundaries. WTG is classically equivalent to General Relativity (GR) but possesses a reduced gauge symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-23 Gloria Odak , Salvatore Ribisi

Weyl's conformal theory of gravity is an extension of Einstein's theory of general relativity which associates metrics with 1-forms . In the case of locally integrable (closed non-exact) 1-forms the spacetime manifolds are no more simply…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-09 Michel Duneau

In 1918 Weyl introduced Weyl conformal geometry and its associated quadratic action which was the first gauge theory, of a spacetime symmetry, the Weyl gauge theory (of dilatations and Poincar\'e symmetry). The initial physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-10 D. M. Ghilencea

In this paper we consider an extended Gauss-Bonnet gravity theory in arbitrary dimensions and in a space provided with a Weyl connection, which is torsionless but not metric-compatible, the non-metricity tensor being determined by a vector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Tomi S. Koivisto

We construct a Weyl-Einsteinian-Cubic Gravity (ECG) as a cubic gauge theory of gravity via abelian gauge and properly tuned compensating real scalar fields. The model is free from any dimensionful parameters. The bare ECG emerges as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-05 Suat Dengiz

We argue that conformal invariance in flat spacetime implies Weyl invariance in a general curved background metric for all unitary theories in spacetime dimensions $d \leq 10$. We also study possible curvature corrections to the Weyl…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Kara Farnsworth , Markus A. Luty , Valentina Prilepina

Recently conformal Weyl gravity has been considered as a candidate alternative gravity theory. This fourth-order theory is attractive because it is the only metric theory of gravity which is invariant under local conformal transformations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Lloyd Knox , Arthur Kosowsky