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Instead of the scalar "dilaton" field that is usually adopted to construct conformally invariant Lagrangians for gravitation, we here propose a hybrid construction, involving both a complex dilaton scalar and a Weyl gauge-vector, in accord…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-08 Hans C. Ohanian

We consider the construction of gauge theories of gravity, focussing in particular on the extension of local Poincar\'e invariance to include invariance under local changes of scale. We work exclusively in terms of finite transformations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-30 Anthony Lasenby , Michael Hobson

We present the manifestly covariant canonical operator formalism of a Weyl invariant (or equivalently, a locally scale invariant) gravity whose classical action consists of the well-known conformal gravity and Weyl invariant scalar-tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-17 Ichiro Oda , Misaki Ohta

In this paper we apply the symmetry principle in order to search for an alternative unified explanation of several cosmological puzzles such as the present stage of accelerated expansion of the Universe and the Hubble tension issue, among…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-13 Israel Quiros

We study the Standard Model (SM) in Weyl conformal geometry. This embedding is natural and truly minimal {\it with no new fields} required beyond the SM spectrum and Weyl geometry. The action inherits a gauged scale symmetry $D(1)$ (known…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-24 D. M. Ghilencea

We revisit the gauge symmetry related to integrable projective transformations in metric-affine formalism, identifying the gauge field of the Weyl (conformal) symmetry as a dynamical component of the affine connection. In particular, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-26 Gonzalo J. Olmo , Emanuele Orazi , Gianfranco Pradisi

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

We construct a Weyl x SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y invariant theory by extending four-dimensional Weyl quadratic gravity with Weyl-invariant scalar, fermion, Yukawa and gauge sectors. The quadratic structure (R^tilde - mu^2 |phi|^2)^2 allows the Weyl…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-06 Hao-Qian Peng , Yun-Tao Gu , Yu-Xiao Liu

I state and prove, in the context of a space having only the metrical and affine structure imposed by the geometrized version of Newtonian gravitational theory, a theorem analagous to that of Weyl's for a Lorentz manifold. The theorem says…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-10 Erik Curiel

We consider the construction of gauge theories of gravity that are invariant under local conformal transformations. We first clarify the geometric nature of global conformal transformations, in both their infinitesimal and finite forms, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-10 Michael Hobson , Anthony Lasenby

We extend our program, of coupling theories to scale in order to make their Weyl invariance manifest, to include interacting theories, fermions and supersymmetric theories. The results produce mass terms coinciding with the standard ones…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Abrar Shaukat , Andrew Waldron

Weyl geometry is a natural extension of conformal geometry with Weyl covariance mediated by a Weyl connection. We generalize the Fefferman-Graham (FG) ambient construction for conformal manifolds to a corresponding construction for Weyl…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-26 Weizhen Jia , Manthos Karydas , Robert G. Leigh

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

We discuss comparatively local versus gauged Weyl symmetry beyond Standard Model (SM) and Einstein gravity and their geometric interpretation. The SM and Einstein gravity admit a natural embedding in Weyl integrable geometry which is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-12 D. M. Ghilencea , C. T. Hill

Just after Weyl's paper (Weyl in Gravitation und Elektrizit\"at, Sitzungsber. Preuss. Akad., Berlin, 1918) Einstein claimed that a gravity model written in a spacetime geometry with non-metricity suffers from a phenomenon, the so-called…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-18 Caglar Pala , Ozcan Sert , Muzaffer Adak

Weyl-invariant extensions of three-dimensional New Massive Gravity, generic n-dimensional Quadratic Curvature Gravity theories and three-dimensional Born-Infeld gravity theory are analyzed in details. As required by Weyl-invariance, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-01 Suat Dengiz

We discuss gauge theories of scale invariance beyond the Standard Model (SM) and Einstein gravity. A consequence of gauging this symmetry is that their underlying 4D geometry is non-metric ($\nabla_\mu g_{\alpha\beta}\not=0$). Examples of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-19 D. M. Ghilencea

2T-gravity in d+2 dimensions predicts 1T General Relativity (GR) in d dimensions, augmented with a local scale symmetry known as the Weyl symmetry in 1T field theory. The emerging GR comes with a number of constraints, particularly on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Itzhak Bars , Shih-Hung Chen

We show that a class of finite quantum non-local gravitational theories is conformally invariant at classical as well as at quantum level. This is actually a range of conformal anomaly-free theories in the spontaneously broken phase of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-03 Leonardo Modesto , Leslaw Rachwal

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