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We revisit the cutoff surface formulation of fluid-gravity duality in the context of the classical double copy. The spacetimes in this fluid-gravity duality are algebraically special, with Petrov type II when the spacetime is four…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-01 Cynthia Keeler , Tucker Manton , Nikhil Monga

The Bach equation, i.e., the vacuum field equation following from the Lagrangian L=C_{ijkl}C^{ijkl}, will be completely solved for the case that the metric is conformally related to the cartesian product of two 2-spaces; this covers the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Dzhunushaliev , H. -J. Schmidt

We elaborate on conformal higher-spin gauge theory in three-dimensional (3D) curved space. For any integer $n>2$ we introduce a conformal spin-$\frac{n}{2}$ gauge field $h_{(n)} =h_{\alpha_1\dots \alpha_n}$ (with $n$ spinor indices) of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Michael Ponds

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

The advanced state of cosmological observations constantly tests the alternative theories of gravity that originate from Einstein's theory. However, this is not restricted to modifications to general relativity. In this sense, we work in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-10 Mohsen Fathi , Mona Kariminezhad , Marco Olivares , J. R. Villanueva

Using different types of embeddings of equations of motion we investigate the existence of generalizations of the "New Massive Gravity" (NMG) model with the same particle content (massive gravitons). By using the Weyl symmetry as a guiding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 D. Dalmazi , E. L. Mendonça

We show that (specifically scaled) equations of shear-free null geodesic congruences on the Minkowski space-time possess intrinsic self-dual, restricted gauge and algebraic structures. The complex eikonal, Weyl 2-spinor, $SL(2,\mathbb C)$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-01 Vladimir V. Kassandrov , Joseph A. Rizcallah

We consider the conformal group of a space of dim n=p+q, with SO(p,q) metric. The quotient of this group by its homogeneous Weyl subgroup gives a principal fiber bundle with 2n-dim base manifold and Weyl fibers. The Cartan generalization to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-03 James T Wheeler

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

The wave equation and equations of covariantly-constant vector fields (CCVF) in spaces with Weyl nonmetricity turn out to possess, in addition to the canonical conformal-gauge, a gauge invariance of another type. On a Minkowski metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-25 Vladimir V. Kassandrov , Joseph A. Rizcallah

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

We develop a symmetry-based construction of gravity from a phase in which Weyl invariance is spontaneously broken. Using the coset formalism, the dilaton acts as a Stuckelberg field for the gauged scale symmetry, giving the Weyl gauge field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-13 Lucas Fernández Sarmiento , Irvin Martínez Rodríguez

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

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 study the ghost-free bimetric theory of Hassan and Rosen, with parameters $\beta_i$ such that a flat Minkowski solution exists for both metrics. We show that, expanding around this solution and eliminating one of the two metrics with its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Giulia Cusin , Jacopo Fumagalli , Michele Maggiore

The classical double copy procedure relates classical asymptotically-flat gravitational field solutions to Yang-Mills and scalar field solutions living in Minkowski space. In this paper we extend this correspondence to maximally symmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-17 Mariana Carrillo-Gonzalez , Riccardo Penco , Mark Trodden

There exist two consistent theories of self-interacting gravitons: general relativity and Weyl transverse gravity. The latter has the same classical solutions as general relativity, but different local symmetries. We argue that Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Ana Alonso-Serrano , Luis J. Garay , Marek Liška

There exist two consistent theories of massless, self-interacting gravitons, which differ by their local symmetries: general relativity and Weyl transverse gravity. We show that these two theories are also the only two metric descriptions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-14 Ana Alonso-Serrano , Luis J. Garay , Marek Liška

Motivated by an axiomatic approach to characterize space-time it is investigated a reformulation of Einstein's gravity where the pseudo-riemannian geometry is substituted by a Weyl one. It is presented the main properties of the Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-19 F. P. Poulis , J. M. Salim

We consider the (gauged) Weyl gravity action, quadratic in the scalar curvature ($\tilde R$) and in the Weyl tensor ($\tilde C_{\mu\nu\rho\sigma}$) of the Weyl conformal geometry. In the absence of matter fields, this action has spontaneous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-15 D. M. Ghilencea