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Gravitational waves are one of the most important diagnostic tools in the analysis of strong-gravity dynamics and have been turned into an observational channel with LIGO's detection of GW150914. Aside from their importance in astrophysics,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-18 William G. Cook , Ulrich Sperhake

We consider cosmological implications of the Weyl geometric gravity theory. The basic action of the model is obtained from the simplest conformally invariant gravitational action, constructed, in Weyl geometry, from the square of the Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-18 Tiberiu Harko , Shahab Shahidi

The Weyl geometry promises potential applications in gravity and quantum mechanics. We study the relationships between the Weyl geometry, quantum entropy and quantum entanglement based on the Weyl geometry endowing the Euclidean metric. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-21 Shi-Dong Liang , Wenjing Huang

Working directly with a general Hamiltonian for the spacetime metric with the $3+1$ decomposition and keeping only the spatial covariance, we investigate the possibility of reducing the number of degrees of freedom by introducing an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-20 Zhi-Bang Yao , Michele Oliosi , Xian Gao , Shinji Mukohyama

We revisit the old (fourth-order or quadratically generated) gravity model of Starobinsky in four space-time dimensions, and derive the (inflaton) scalar potential in the equivalent scalar-tensor gravity model via a Legendre-Weyl transform.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-09 S. Kaneda , S. V. Ketov , N. Watanabe

The long-range gravitational terms associated with tidal forces, frame-dragging effects, and gravitational waves are described by the Weyl conformal tensor, the traceless part of the Riemann curvature that is not locally affected by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-29 A. Danehkar

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

The concern of this article is a semiclassical Weyl calculus on an infinite dimensional Hilbert space $H$. If $(i, H, B)$ is a Wiener triplet associated to $H$, the quantum state space will be the space of $L^2$ functions on $B$ with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-21 Laurent Amour , Richard Lascar , Jean Nourrigat

We prove that, in a space-time of dimension n>3 with a velocity field that is shear-free, vorticity-free and acceleration-free, the covariant divergence of the Weyl tensor is zero if the contraction of the Weyl tensor with the velocity is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Luca Guido Molinari , Carlo Alberto Mantica

We reexamine from first principles the classical Goldberg-Sachs theorem from General Relativity. We cast it into the form valid for complex metrics, as well as real metrics of any signature. We obtain the sharpest conditions on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-11 A Rod Gover , C Denson Hill , Pawel Nurowski

We study the degrees of freedom of $R^2$ gravity in flat spacetime with two approaches. By rewriting the theory a la Stueckelberg, and implementing Lorentz-like gauges to the metric perturbations, we confirm that the pure theory propagates…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-27 Anamaria Hell , Dieter Lust , George Zoupanos

We review recent developments in physical implications of Weyl conformal geometry. The associated Weyl quadratic gravity action is a gauge theory of the Weyl group of dilatations and Poincar\'e symmetry. Weyl conformal geometry is defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-05 D. M. Ghilencea

We consider several tensorial wave equations, specifically the equations of Maxwell, Yang-Mills, and Weyl fields, posed on a curved spacetime, and we establish new energy inequalities under certain one-sided geometric conditions. Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-17 Annegret Y. Burtscher , James D. E. Grant , Philippe G. LeFloch

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 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 apply the Weyl method, as sanctioned by Palais' symmetric criticality theorems, to obtain those -highly symmetric -geometries amenable to explicit solution, in generic gravitational models and dimension. The technique consists of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Deser , Bayram Tekin

In Einstein's Field Equation(EFE) the geometry of the space-time is connected with the matter distribution. The geometry or the gravitational sector deals with classical macroscopic objects involving gravitational units while the matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-07 Prasenjit Paul , Rikpratik Sengupta , Saibal Ray

Weyl semimetals are recently discovered materials supporting emergent relativistic fermions in the vicinity of band-crossing points known as Weyl nodes. The positions of the nodes and the low-energy spectrum depend sensitively on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Alex Westström , Teemu Ojanen

We investigate the stability and gravitational waves (GWs) in the four-dimensional general Einstein-vector theory in a cosmological background. The theory accommodates up to six propagating degrees of freedom, comprising two tensor, two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-16 Xiao-Bin Lai , Yu-Zhi Fan , Yu-Qi Dong , Yu-Xiao Liu

We consider the possibility of deriving a decoupled equation in terms of Weyl tensor components for gravitational perturbations of the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini solution. We find a particular gauge invariant component of the Weyl tensor…

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