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We develop the properties of Weyl geometry, beginning with a review of the conformal properties of Riemannian spacetimes. Decomposition of the Riemann curvature into trace and traceless parts allows an easy proof that the Weyl curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-19 James T. Wheeler

We investigated the possibility of construction the homogeneous and isotropic cosmological solutions in Weyl geometry. We derived the self-consistency condition which ensures the conformal invariance of the complete set of equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-01 Victor A. Berezin , Vyacheslav I. Dokuchaev , Yury N. Eroshenko , Alexey L. Smirnov

We consider the effects of momentum relaxation on the topological quantum phase transitions in holographic Weyl semimetals. The translational symmetry breaking in the field theory is realized in the framework of massive gravity. We find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 Junkun Zhao

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

The pure $R^2$ gravity is equivalent to Einstein gravity with cosmological constant and a massless scalar field and it further possesses the so-called restricted Weyl symmetry which is a symmetry larger than scale symmetry. To incorporate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-19 Ariel Edery , Yu Nakayama

The cross-couplings among several Weyl gravitons (described in the free limit by a sum of linearized Weyl actions) in the presence of a scalar field are studied with the help of the deformation theory based on local BRST cohomology. Under…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Bizdadea , E. M. Cioroianu , A. C. Lungu

This paper presents the detailed, standard treatment of a simple, gauge invariant action for Weyl and Weyl-like Cartan geometries outlined in a previous paper. In addition to the familiar scalar curvature squared and Maxwell terms, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-26 J. E. Rankin

A new 8-dim conformal gauging solves the auxiliary field problem and eliminates unphysical size change from Weyl's electromagnetic theory. We derive the Maurer-Cartan structure equations and find the zero curvature solutions for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 James T. Wheeler

It has been known for some time that General Relativity can be regarded as a Yang-Mills-type gauge theory in a symmetry broken phase. In this picture the gravity sector is described by an $SO(1,4)$ or $SO(2,3)$ gauge field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 H. F. Westman , T. G. Zlosnik

We investigate the relationship between quadratic gravity and a restricted Weyl symmetry where a gauge parameter $\Omega(x)$ of Weyl transformation satisfies a constraint $\Box \Omega = 0$ in a curved space-time. First, we briefly review a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-21 Arata Kamimura , Ichiro Oda

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

We consider the recently introduced mimetic gravity, which is a Weyl-symmetric extension of the General Relativity and which can play a role of an imperfect fluid-like Dark Matter with a small sound speed. In this paper we discuss in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-31 Katrin Hammer , Alexander Vikman

We show that the Planck mass scale can be generated from conformal gravity in the Weyl conformal geometry via the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism of dimensional transmutation where quantum corrections stemming from the gravitational field and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-25 Ichiro Oda

We construct a Weyl transverse diffeomorphism invariant theory of teleparallel gravity by employing the Weyl compensator formalism. The low-energy dynamics has a single spin two gravition without a scalar degree of freedom. By construction,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-31 Yu Nakayama

Weyl's conformal theory of gravity is an extension of Einstein's theory of general relativity which associates metrics with 1-forms . In the case of locally integrable (closed non-exact) 1-forms the spacetime manifolds are no more simply…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-09 Michel Duneau

The aim of the current paper is to study the multiscalar-tensor theories of gravity without derivative couplings. We construct a few basic objects that are invariant under a Weyl rescaling of the metric and transform covariantly when the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-25 Piret Kuusk , Laur Jarv , Ott Vilson

We construct all possible Weyl invariant actions in $d=4$ for linearized spin three field in a general gravitational background. The first action is obtained as the square of the generalized Weyl tensor for a spin three gauge field in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Ruben Manvelyan , Gabriel Poghosyan

In this paper we discuss on the phenomenological viability of nonmetricity theories of gravity which are based in the class of generalized Weyl spacetimes -- denoted by $W_4$ -- where arbitrary nonmetricity is allowed. This class of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Israel Quiros

We construct a mathematically controlled correspondence between the electric and magnetic parts of the Weyl tensor in vacuum general relativity and the kinematics of a micropolar (Cosserat) elastic medium. In this framework, gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-06 David Izabel

In the first part, we discuss the interplay between local scale invariance and metric-affine degrees of freedom from few distinct points of view. We argue, rather generally, that the gauging of Weyl symmetry is a natural byproduct of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-23 Dario Sauro , Omar Zanusso