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Conformal Weyl Gravity (CWG) predicts galactic rotation curves without invoking dark matter. This makes CWG an interesting candidate theory as an alternative to GR. This removal of the necessity of dark matter arises because the exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-01 Deandra Cutajar , Kristian Zarb Adami

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

We discuss the concepts of Weyl and Riemann frames in the context of metric theories of gravity and state the fact that they are completely equivalent as far as geodesic motion is concerned. We apply this result to conformally flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Romero , J. B. Fonseca-Neto , M. L. Pucheu

We present the algebraic classification of the gravitational field in four-dimensional general metric-affine geometries, thus extending the current results of the literature in the particular framework of Weyl-Cartan geometry by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Sebastian Bahamonde , Jorge Gigante Valcarcel , José M. M. Senovilla

In the standard Einstein's theory the exterior gravitational field of any static and axially symmetric stellar object can be described by means of a single function from which we obtain a metric into a four-dimensional space-time. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-19 J. L. Hernández-Pastora

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-20 Israel Quiros

In the present study, we explore the dynamical characteristics of the quintessence cosmological model in Weyl-type $f(Q,T)$ gravity. Here, $T$ represents the trace of the matter energy-momentum tensor, and $Q$ symbolizes the nonmetricity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-05 Vinod Kumar Bhardwaj , Priyanka Garg

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 investigate the cosmic evolution of the Universe across different cosmological epochs in exponential Weyl-type $f(Q, T)$ gravity model. The theoretical analysis involves a detailed dynamical system approach, where we define dimensionless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-10 Rahul Bhagat , Francisco Tello-Ortiz , B. Mishra

In this paper we revisit the motivation and construction of a unified theory of gravity and electromagnetism, following Weyl's insights regarding the appealing potential connection between the gauge invariance of electromagnetism and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-13 Carlos Barceló , Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Luis J. Garay

We present a new empirical model for galaxy rotation curves that introduces a velocity correction term {\omega}, derived from observed stellar motion and anchored to Keplerian baselines. Unlike parametric halo models or modified gravity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-05 David C. Flynn , Jim Cannaliato

We find the Hamiltonian expression in the York basis of canonical ADM tetrad gravity of the 4-Weyl tensor of the asymptotically Minkowskian space-time. Like for the 4-Riemann tensor we find a radar tensor (whose components are 4-scalars due…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-08 L. Lusanna , M. Villani

We investigated the possibility of the homogeneous and isotropic cosmological solution in Weyl geometry, which differs from the Riemannian geometry by adding the so called Weyl vector. The Weyl gravity is obtained by constructing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-06 V. A. Berezin , V. I. Dokuchaev

In this work we find analytical solutions to the null geodesics in the hyperbolic topological black hole spacetime of conformal Weyl gravity in an invariant $2$-plane given by the orbits of an azimuthal Killing vector. Exact expressions for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-24 Graeme Candlish , Marco Olivares , Constanza Osses , J. R. Villanueva

We establish the status of the Weyl double copy relation for radiative solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations. We show that all type N vacuum solutions, which describe the radiation region of isolated gravitational systems with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 Hadi Godazgar , Mahdi Godazgar , Ricardo Monteiro , David Peinador Veiga , C. N. Pope

Wave extraction plays a fundamental role in the binary black hole simulations currently performed in numerical relativity. Having a well defined procedure for wave extraction, which matches simplicity with efficiency, is critical especially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrea Nerozzi

Consistency of Weyl natural gauge, Lorentz gauge and nonlinear gauge is studied in Weyl geometry. Field equations in generalized Weyl-Dirac theory show that spinless electron and photon are topological defects. Statistical metric and…

General Physics · Physics 2020-11-17 S. C. Tiwari

In a recent Comment on the paper "Dark matter as a Weyl geometric effect", by Burikham et al., Phys. Rev. D 107, 064008 (2023), posted on arxiv. org as eprint arXiv:2306.11926, it was claimed that the exact solution found in the above…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-23 Piyabut Burikham , Tiberiu Harko , Kulapant Pimsamarn , Shahab Shahidi

In the multiscalar-metric frameworks, the issues of the vacuum energy/cosmological constant (CC) screening due to the Weyl-scale enhancement of the Diff gauge symmetry, along with emergence of the massive dark gravity components through the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-03 Yury F. Pirogov

Galactic rotation curve is a powerful indicator of the state of the gravitational field within a galaxy. The flatness of these curves indicates the presence of dark matter in galaxies and their clusters. In this paper, we focus on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-28 Gayatri Mohan , Umananda Dev Goswami