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We review recent developments in physical implications of Weyl conformal geometry. The associated Weyl quadratic gravity action is a gauge theory of the Weyl group of dilatations and Poincar\'e symmetry. Weyl conformal geometry is defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-05 D. M. Ghilencea

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

We present a complete algebraic classification for the curvature tensor in Weyl-Cartan geometry, by applying methods of eigenvalues and principal null directions on its irreducible decomposition under the group of global Lorentz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-24 Sebastian Bahamonde , Jorge Gigante Valcarcel

We investigate the gravitational wave polarization modes and stability in Weyl geometry gravity within a Minkowski background. Our results indicate that the tensor sector consists of two standard modes propagating at the speed of light.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 Yu-Zhi Fan , Xiao-Bin Lai , Yu-Qi Dong , Yu-Xiao Liu

We set analytical constraints on the parameter space of models of gravity containing a term quadratic in Weyl curvature $-\alpha C^2$. In this class of models, there are four propagating tensorial degrees of freedom, two vector degrees of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Benjamin Sutton , Antonio de Felice , Mairi Sakellariadou

Gravity is attributed to the spacetime curvature in classical General Relativity (GR). But, other equivalent formulation or representations of GR, such as torsion or non-metricity have altered the perception. We consider the Weyl-type $f(Q,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-20 Gaurav Gadbail , Simran Arora , P. K. Sahoo

We present the general theory of relativity in the language of a non-Riemannian geometry, namely, Weyl geometry. We show that the new mathematical formalism may lead to different pictures of the same gravitational phenomena, by making use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 C. Romero , J. B. Fonseca-Neto , M. L. Pucheu

Gravitational waves provide a unique window into gravity, cosmology, and high-energy physics, enabling the exploration of fundamental phenomena across a wide range of scales. This review presents a coherent and pedagogical framework that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Azadeh Maleknejad

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 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 apply the conformal gravity theory to a sample of 111 spiral galaxies whose rotation curve data points extend well beyond the optical disk. With no free parameters other than galactic mass to light ratios, the theory is able to account…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Philip D. Mannheim , James G. O'Brien

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

In this note we comment on a recent attempt by P. Burikham, T. Harko, K. Pimsamarn and S. Shahidi [Phys. Rev. D {\bf 107}, 064008 (2023)] to explain the galactic rotation curves as the result of the motion of time-like test particles in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-16 Israel Quiros

We study light propagation and gravitational lensing in scalar-tensor theories of gravity by using a static, axisymmetric exterior solution. The solution has asymptotic flatness properties and is reduced to Voorhees's one in the case of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Shin-ei Tsuneishi , Kazuya Watanabe , Tooru Tsuchida

Motivated by an axiomatic approach to characterize space-time it is investigated a reformulation of Einstein's gravity where the pseudo-riemannian geometry is substituted by a Weyl one. It is presented the main properties of the Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-19 F. P. Poulis , J. M. Salim

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

The behavior of the angular velocity of a test particle moving in a stable circular orbit in the vacuum on the brane is considered. In the brane world scenario, the four dimensional effective Einstein equation acquire extra terms, called…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. G. Boehmer , T. Harko

This paper presents three aspects by which the Weyl geometric generalization of Riemannian geometry, and of Einstein gravity, sheds light on actual questions of physics and its philosophical reflection. After introducing the theory's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-28 Erhard Scholz

A unitary gravitational action up to third order of curvature in which respects to the holographic $a-$theorem has been constructed in \cite{myers}. In particular, its third order term is just the Weyl-cubed term in four dimensions. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-13 Mohammad A. Ganjali

When the full connection of Weyl conformal gravity is varied instead of just the metric, the resulting vacuum field equations reduce to the vacuum Einstein equation, up to the choice of local units, if and only if the torsion vanishes. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-30 James T. Wheeler