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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 present a scale-invariant theory, conformal gravity, which closely resembles the geometrodynamical formulation of general relativity (GR). While previous attempts to create scale-invariant theories of gravity have been based on Weyl's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Edward Anderson , Julian Barbour , Brendan Foster , Niall O'Murchadha

Some problems of cosmology: the big bang singularity, the origin of conventional matter, of dark matter and of dark energy may be successfully described and treated in the framework of the Weyl-Dirac theory. This theory, being a minimal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-07 Mark Israelit

We consider an extension of the Weyl-Cartan-Weitzenb\"{o}ck (WCW) and teleparallel gravity, in which the Weitzenb\"{o}ck condition of the exact cancellation of curvature and torsion in a Weyl-Cartan geometry is inserted into the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-14 Zahra Haghani , Tiberiu Harko , Hamid Reza Sepangi , Shahab Shahidi

We investigate the perihelion shift of planetary motion in conformal Weyl gravity using the metric of the static, spherically symmetric solution discovered by Mannheim \& Kazanas (1989). To this end we employ a procedure similar to that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-15 Joseph Sultana , Demosthenes Kazanas , Jackson Levi Said

A Weyl geometric scale covariant approach to gravity due to Omote, Dirac, and Utiyama (1971ff) is reconsidered. It can be extended to the electroweak sector of elementary particle fields, taking into account their basic scaling freedom.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Erhard Scholz

In four space-time dimensions, there are good theoretical reasons for believing that General Relativity is the correct geometrical theory of gravity, at least at the classical level. If one admits the possibility of extra space-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-20 Steven Willison

In spinor formalism, since any massless free-field spinor with spin higher than $1/2$ can be constructed with spin-1/2 spinors (Dirac-Weyl spinors) and scalars, we introduce a map between Weyl fields and Dirac-Weyl fields. We determine the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-07 Shanzhong Han

An exact but simple general relativistic model for the gravitational field of active galactic nuclei is constructed, based on the superposition in Weyl coordinates of a black hole, a Chazy-Curzon disk and two rods, which represent matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Vogt , P. S. Letelier

In this paper, we consider some causality violating solutions in the curvature-squared gravity in order to examine whether closed timelike curves (CTCs) are allowed in these models. These aspects are studied in terms of the G\"odel,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-13 J. C. R. de Souza , A. F. Santos , R. Bufalo

A crucial property of Weyl gravity is its conformal invariance. It is shown how this gauge symmetry is exactly reflected by the two constraints in the Hamiltonian framework. Since the spatial 3-metric is one of the configuration variables,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-26 Qian Chen , Yongge Ma

We analyze the gravitational entropy defined by the Weyl curvature for the Hayward black hole, which is one of the regular black holes without singularity in the event horizon. Using the definition by the ratio of the Weyl curvature scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-16 Hideo Iguchi

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

A comparison is given between the Newtonian and Einsteinian frames of gravitation. From this it is shown that there exist a weak connection to gravitation and electromagnetism. This connection is then studied more thoroughly with the Weyl…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. F. Halerewicz

We continue our study of the application of the conformal gravity theory to galactic rotation curves. Previously we had studied a varied 111 spiral galaxy sample consisting of high surface brightness galaxies, low surface brightness…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 James G. O'Brien , Philip D. Mannheim

In this thesis, we attempt to gain a more complete insight into Double Layer Theories in Weyl Gravity. In order to do this, we first establish the premise of Weyls Theory, including its provenance, development and flaws. This is all…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Victor Berezin , Kushan Dharmadarshi

Already the simplest examples of Weyl geometry, the static space-time models of general relativity modified by an additional time-homogeneous Weylian length connection lead to beautiful cosmological models (Weyl universes) . The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Erhard Scholz

The Riemann tensor is the cornerstone of general relativity, but as everyone knows it does not appear explicitly in Einstein's equation of gravitation. This suggests that the latter may not be the most general equation. We propose here for…

General Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Frédéric Moulin

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) propagating through cosmic structures can provide invaluable information on the geometry and content of our Universe, as well as on the fundamental theory of gravity. In order to test possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Alice Garoffolo , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Carmelita Carbone , Daniele Bertacca , Sabino Matarrese

We present a parametric study of the spacetime structures obtainable in Weyl conformal gravity's dyonic Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m solution. We derive expressions for photon sphere radii and horizons for this metric in terms of the conformal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Reinosuke Kusano , Miguel Yulo Asuncion , Keith Horne