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We consider the structure and physical properties of specific classes of neutron, quark, and Bose-Einstein Condensate stars in the conformally invariant Weyl geometric gravity theory. The basic theory is derived from the simplest…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-12 Zahra Haghani , Tiberiu Harko

We investigate the cosmological applications of a bi-scalar modified gravity that exhibits partial conformal invariance, which could become full conformal invariance in the absence of the usual Einstein-Hilbert term and introducing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-27 Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Minas Tsoukalas

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 investigate cosmological models in a recently proposed geometrical theory of gravity, in which the scalar field appears as part of the space-time geometry. We extend the previous theory to include a scalar potential in the action. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-14 M. L. Pucheu , F. A. P. Alves-Junior , A. B. Barreto , C. Romero

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 propose a new non-trivial way to combine mimetic dark matter with the mimetic formulation of unimodular gravity. This yields a Weyl-invariant higher-derivative scalar-vector-tensor theory. We demonstrate that on-shell its behavior mimics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-02 Pavel Jiroušek , Keigo Shimada , Alexander Vikman , Masahide Yamaguchi

Despite the fact that General Relativity (GR) has been very successful, many alternative theories of gravity have attracted the attention of a significant number of theoretical physicists. Among these theories, we have theories with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-14 J. B. Formiga

The usual interpretation of Weyl geometry is modified in two senses. First, both the additive Weyl connection and its variation are treated as (1, 2) tensors under the action of Weyl covariant derivative. Second, a modified covariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-18 Fang-Fang Yuan , Yong-Chang Huang

Conformal gravity on noncommutative spacetime is considered in this paper. The presupposed gravity action consists of the Brans-Dicke gravity action with a special prefactor of the term, where the Ricci scalar couples to the scalar field,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-07 Martin Kober

Recently, it has been pointed out that dimensionless actions in four dimensional curved spacetime possess a symmetry which goes beyond scale invariance but is smaller than full Weyl invariance. This symmetry was dubbed {\it restricted Weyl…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-26 Ariel Edery , Yu Nakayama

We consider a gravitational model in a Weyl-Cartan space-time, in which the Weitzenb\"{o}ck condition of the vanishing of the sum of the curvature and torsion scalar is also imposed. Moreover, a kinetic term for the torsion is also included…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-13 Zahra Haghani , Tiberiu Harko , Hamid Reza Sepangi , Shahab Shahidi

We consider higher dimensional gravity in which the four dimensional spacetime and extra dimensions are not treated on an equal footing. The anisotropy is implemented in the ADM decomposition of higher dimensional metric by requiring the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-27 Taeyoon Moon , Phillial Oh

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 obtain exact black hole solutions for static and spherically symmetric sources in a Weyl conformal gauge theory of gravity. We consider a quadratic gravitational action built from the Weyl tensor within a dilation geometry. In a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-29 Leandro A. Lessa , Caio F. B. Macedo , Manoel M. Ferreira

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 show how to lift a generic non-scale invariant action in Einstein frame into a locally conformally-invariant (or Weyl-invariant) theory and present a new general form for Lagrangians consistent with Weyl symmetry. Advantages of such a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-26 Itzhak Bars , Paul Steinhardt , Neil Turok

We analyze gravitational theories with quadratic curvature terms, including the case of conformally invariant Weyl gravity, motivated by the intention to find a renormalizable theory of gravity in the ultraviolet region, yet yielding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-18 Josef Klusoň , Markku Oksanen , Anca Tureanu

It is shown that in the quadratic gravity based on Weyl's conformal geometry, the Planck mass scale can be generated from quantum effects of the gravitational field and the Weyl gauge field via the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism where a local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-24 Ichiro Oda

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

We describe a method to generate scalar-tensor theories with Weyl symmetry, starting from arbitrary purely metric higher derivative gravity theories. The method consists in the definition of a conformally-invariant metric $\hat{g}_{\mu…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-12 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Avik Chakraborty