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In a previous paper, we presented new results on non-Riemannian geometry. For an asymmetric connection, we showed that a projective change in the symmetric part generates a vector field that is not arbitrary, but is the gradient of a…

General Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 A. C. V. V. de Siqueira

We take a three dimensional Euclidian metric in toroidal coordinates and consider the corresponding Laplace equation. The simplest solution of this equation is taken. Based on this we build a Weyl space-time. This space-time is transformed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. B. P. Wickramasuriya , V. Joseph , K. I. S. Karunaratne

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 study Weyl conformal geometry as a general gauge theory of the Weyl group (of Poincar\'e and dilatations symmetries) in a manifestly Weyl gauge covariant formalism in which this geometry is automatically metric and physically relevant.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-31 C. Condeescu , D. M. Ghilencea , A. Micu

We revisit Weyl geometry in the context of recent higher-dimensional theories of spacetime. After introducing the Weyl theory in a modern geometrical language we present some results that represent extensions of Riemannian theorems. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Dahia , G. A. T. Gomez , C. Romero

We examine the growth of the Weyl curvature in two examples of naked singularity formation in spherical gravitational collapse - dust and the Vaidya spacetime. We find that the Weyl scalar diverges along outgoing radial null geodesics as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sukratu Barve , T. P. Singh

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

According to folklore in general relativity, the Weyl tensor can be decomposed into parts corresponding to Newton-like, incoming and outgoing wavelike field components. It is shown here that this one-to-one correspondence does not hold for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-25 Stefan Hofmann , Florian Niedermann , Robert Schneider

I have shown that the field defined by the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for \textit{pure gravity} is neither a standard gravitational field nor the field representing a particular universe. The theory offers a unified description of geometry and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-28 Avadhut V. Purohit

It is argued that Weyl's theory of gravitation and electricity came out of `mathematical justice': out of the equal rights direction and length. Such mathematical justice was manifestly at work in the context of discovery, and is enough…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2008-04-22 Alexander Afriat

We show that Quantum Mechanics can be interpreted as a modification of the Euclidean nature of 3-d space into a particular Weyl affine space which we call Q-wis. This is proved using the Bohm-de Broglie causal formulation of Quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-22 M. Novello , J. M. Salim , F. T. Falciano

We revisit Weyl's metrication (geometrization) of electromagnetism. We show that by making Weyl's proposed geometric connection be pure imaginary, not only are we able to metricate electromagnetism, an underlying local conformal invariance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Philip D. Mannheim

Any acceptable quantum gravity theory must allow us to recover the classical spacetime in the appropriate limit. Moreover, the spacetime geometrical notions should be intrinsically tied to the behavior of the matter that probes them. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-03 Yuri Bonder , Chryssomalis Chryssomalakos , Daniel Sudarsky

The recognition that physical space (or space-time) is curved is a product of the general theory of relativity, such as dramatically shown by the 1919 solar eclipse measurements. However, the mathematical possibility of non-Euclidean…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2012-06-13 Helge Kragh

We discuss the question of whether or not a general Weyl structure is a suitable mathematical model of space-time. This is an issue that has been in debate since Weyl formulated his unified field theory for the first time. We do not present…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-09 R. Avalos , F. Dahia , C. Romero

In this work, we show how Euclidean 3-space uniquely emerges from the structure of quantum temporal correlations associated with sequential measurements of Pauli observables on a single qubit. Quite remarkably, the quantum temporal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 James Fullwood , Vlatko Vedral

In this paper we shall show that, unless the affine geometrical structure of the underlying spacetime manifold is specified, there is an ambiguity in the understanding of the scale invariance -- also Weyl invariance -- of the given theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-01 Israel Quiros

The on shell equivalence of first order and second order formalisms for the Einstein-Hilbert action does not hold for those actions quadratic in curvature. It would seem that by considering the connection and the metric as independent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-15 Enrique Alvarez , Sergio Gonzalez-Martin

Euclidean distance geometry is the study of Euclidean geometry based on the concept of distance. This is useful in several applications where the input data consists of an incomplete set of distances, and the output is a set of points in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2012-05-03 Leo Liberti , Carlile Lavor , Nelson Maculan , Antonio Mucherino

We illustrate how non-relativistic quantum mechanics may be recovered from a dynamical Weyl geometry on configuration space and an `ensemble' of trajectories (or `worlds'). The theory, which is free of a physical wavefunction, is presented…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-03 Philipp Roser