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In this paper, we present a new formulation of topological conformal gravity in four dimensions. Such a theory was first considered by Witten as a possible gravitational counterpart of topological Yang-Mills theory, but several problems…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Malcolm J. Perry , Edward Teo

Assuming the Kaluza-Klein gravity interacting with elementary matter fermions in a (9+1)-dimensional spacetime ($\mathcal{M}_{9+1}$), we propose an information-complete unified theory for all forces and matter. Due to entanglement-driven…

General Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Zeng-Bing Chen

We perform a manifestly covariant quantization of a Weyl invariant, i.e., a locally scale invariant, scalar-tensor gravity in the extended de Donder gauge condition (or harmonic gauge condition) for general coordinate invariance and a new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-29 Ichiro Oda

We present a new formulation for the canonical approach to conformal (Weyl-squared) gravity and its extension by the Einstein-Hilbert term and a nonminimally coupled scalar field. For this purpose we use a unimodular decomposition of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-19 Claus Kiefer , Branislav Nikolic

Faced with the persisting problem of the unification of gravity with other fundamental interactions we investigate the possibility of a new paradigm, according to which the basic space of physics is a multidimensional space ${\cal C}$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Matej Pavsic

Recently, a gauge theory of unified gravity [Rep. Prog. Phys. 88, 057802 (2025)] has been developed to extend the Standard Model to include gravity. Here we present unified gravity using the ordinary four-vector and tensor field notation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-12 Mikko Partanen , Jukka Tulkki

We review some recent developments in the conformal gravity theory that has been advanced as a candidate alternative to standard Einstein gravity. As a quantum theory the conformal theory is both renormalizable and unitary, with unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Philip D. Mannheim

We study the theory of Weyl conformal gravity with matter degrees of freedom in a conformally invariant interaction. Specifically, we consider a triplet of scalar fields and SO(3) non-abelian gauge fields, i.e. the Georgi-Glashow model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-07 A. Edery , Luca Fabbri , M. B. Paranjape

As an illustration of a renormalizable, asymptotically-free model of induced gravity, we consider an $SO(10)$ gauge theory interacting with a real scalar multiplet in the adjoint representation. We show that dimensional transmutation can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-08 Martin B Einhorn , D R Timothy Jones

Gravitational field is the manifestation of space-time translational ($T_4$) gauge symmetry, which enables gravitational interaction to be unified with the strong and the electroweak interactions. Such a total-unified model is based on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-19 Jong-Ping Hsu

The complexified gauging of the de Sitter group gives a unified theory for the electroweak and gravitational interactions. The standard spectrum for the electroweak gauge bosons is recovered with the correct mass assignments, following a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Nikolaos A Batakis

We present a holomorphic framework in which gravity, gauge interactions, and their couplings to charges and currents emerge from a single geometric action on a four-complex-dimensional manifold. The Hermitian metric yields on the real slice…

General Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 John. W. Moffat , Ethan. J. Thompson

We formulate gauge theories on noncompact Lorentzian manifolds. For definiteness we choose an SO(1,4) gauge theory -- the isometry group of the five dimensional Minkowski space. We make use of the natural inner product to construct the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-01 Giovanni Mistretta , Tomislav Prokopec

We present the BRST formalism of a Weyl conformal gravity in Weyl geometry. Choosing the extended de Donder gauge-fixing condition (or harmonic gauge condition) for the general coordinate invariance and the new scalar gauge-fixing for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Ichiro Oda , Philipp Saake

The theory described by the sum of the Einstein-Hilbert action and the action of conformal scalar field possesses the duality symmetry which includes some special conformal transformation of the metric, and also inversion of scalar field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 I. L. Shapiro

A Lagrangian depending on geometric variables (metric, affine connection, gauge group generators) is given which maintains compatibility with General Relativity. It generates the dynamics for Electromagnetism and other Gauge Fields along…

General Physics · Physics 2010-08-17 Juan Andres Musante

The so called Telelateral Conformal Gravity (TCG) is a first order gauge theory describing inertia as internal, scale invariant geometry. The Conformal Affine Theory (CAT) unifies other interactions into TCG in a minimalistic scheme via an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-18 Tomi Sebastian Koivisto

Conformal Gravity (CG) is a Weyl--invariant metric theory whose action is free from divergences for generic asymptotically anti-de Sitter spaces. For Neumann boundary conditions, it reduces to renormalized Einstein--AdS gravity at tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-18 Giorgos Anastasiou , Martin Bravo , Rodrigo Olea

First, we briefly review the description of gravity theories as gauge theories in three and four dimensions. Specifically, we recall the procedure in which the results of General Relativity in three and four dimensions are recovered in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-16 G. Manolakos , P. Manousselis , G. Zoupanos

We consider conformal gravity as a gauge natural theory. We study its conservation laws and superpotentials. We also consider the Mannheim and Kazanas spherically symmetric vacuum solution and discuss conserved quantities associated to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-10 M. Campigotto , L. Fatibene