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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

We propose to test the viability of the recently introduced $f(\mathcal{R})$ gravity model in the galactic scales. For this purpose we consider test particles moving in stable circular orbits around the galactic center. We study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-17 Nashiba Parbin , Umananda Dev Goswami

The Weyl geometry promises potential applications in gravity and quantum mechanics. We study the relationships between the Weyl geometry, quantum entropy and quantum entanglement based on the Weyl geometry endowing the Euclidean metric. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-21 Shi-Dong Liang , Wenjing Huang

Eventual flattening of velocity dispersion profiles of some galactic globular clusters in the Milky Way cannot be explained in the framework of Newtonian gravity and hence in general theory of relativity in the weak field limit, without…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-31 Tousif Islam

We consider the Weyl-Dirac theory within the framework of the weak field approximation and show that the resulting gravitational potential differs from that of Newtonian by a repulsive correction term increasing with distance. The scale of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 S. Mirabotalebi , S. Jalalzadeh , S. Movahed , H. R. Sepangi

We present the results from the analysis of galaxy rotation curves with Verlinde's emergent gravity. We use the data in the SPARC (Spitzer Photometry and Accurate Rotation Curves) database, which contains a sample of 175 nearby disk…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-28 Youngsub Yoon , Jong-Chul Park , Ho Seong Hwang

We propose a novel test of gravity that combines galaxy clustering with gravitational lensing. In general relativity, the evolution of matter density fluctuations and of the Weyl potential -- the sum of spatial and temporal distortions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-06 Camille Bonvin , Nastassia Grimm , Isaac Tutusaus

Starting from the chiral first-order pure connection formulation of General Relativity, we put the field equations of GR in a strikingly simple evolution system form. The two dynamical fields are a complex symmetric tracefree 3x3 matrix…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 Kirill Krasnov , Adam Shaw

The Poincare and Poincare-Weyl gauge theories of gravitation with Lagrangians quadratic on curvature and torsion in post-Riemannian spaces with the Dirac scalar field is discussed in a historical aspect. The various hypothesizes concerning…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-01 O. V. Babourova , B. N. Frolov , P. E. Kudlaev , E. V. Romanova

The general structure of the spherically symmetric solutions in the Weyl conformal gravity is described. The corresponding Bach equations are derived for the special type of metrics, which can be considered as the representative of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-15 V. A. Berezin , V. I. Dokuchaev , Yu. N. Eroshenko

We consider a mimetic type extension of the Weyl geometric gravity theory, by assuming that the metric of the space-time manifold can be parameterized in terms of a scalar field, called the mimetic field. The action of the model is obtained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-19 Daria-Ioana Visa , Tiberiu Harko , Shahab Shahidi

In this paper, we analyse the well-posedness of the initial value formulation for particular kinds of geometric scalar-tensor theories of gravity, which are based on a Weyl integrable space-time. We will show that, within a frame-invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-09 R. Avalos , I. P. Lobo , T. Sanomiya , C. Romero

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 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 investigate the braneworld model with induced gravity to clarify the role of the cross-over length scale \ell in the possible explanation of the dark-matter phenomenon in astrophysics and in cosmology. Observations of the 21 cm line from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexander Viznyuk , Yuri Shtanov

We describe the general structure of the spherically symmetric solutions in the Weyl conformal gravity. The corresponding Bach equations are derived for the special type of metrics, which can be considered as the representative of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-21 V. A. Berezin , V. I. Dokuchaev , Yu. N. Eroshenko

We develop the properties of Weyl geometry, beginning with a review of the conformal properties of Riemannian spacetimes. Decomposition of the Riemann curvature into trace and traceless parts allows an easy proof that the Weyl curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-19 James T. Wheeler

Canonical quantization of gravity in general relativity is greatly simplified by the artificial decomposition of space and time into a 3+1 formalism. Such a simplification may appear to come at the cost of general covariance. This requires…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-03 Cooper Watson , William Julius , Patrick Brown , Donald Salisbury , Gerald Cleaver

We investigate cosmological models in a recently proposed geometrical theory of gravity, in which the scalar field appears as part of the space-time geometry. We extend the previous theory to include a scalar potential in the action. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-14 M. L. Pucheu , F. A. P. Alves-Junior , A. B. Barreto , C. Romero

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