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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 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 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

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

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

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 transverse diffeomorphism invariant theory of symmetric 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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-06 Yu Nakayama

We show that the general theory of relativity can be formulated in the language of Weyl geometry. We develop the concept of Weyl frames and point out that the new mathematical formalism may lead to different pictures of the same…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 C. Romero , J. B. Fonseca-Neto , M. L. Pucheu

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 put forward the idea that in addition to diffeomorphism invariance of general relativity (GR) the gravitational interaction is invariant under arbitrary scale-deformations of the metric field. In addition, we assume that the scaling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-19 Meir Shimon

This paper presents three aspects by which the Weyl geometric generalization of Riemannian geometry, and of Einstein gravity, sheds light on actual questions of physics and its philosophical reflection. After introducing the theory's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-28 Erhard Scholz

We examine some Weyl invariant cosmological models in the framework of generalized dilaton gravity, in which the action is made of a set of $N$ conformally coupled scalar fields. It will be shown that when the FRW ansatz for the spacetime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Enrique Álvarez , Sergio González-Martin , Mario Herrero-Valea

We consider a Weyl-invariant formulation of gravity with a cosmological constant in d-dimensional spacetime and show that near two dimensions the classical action reduces to the timelike Liouville action. We show that the renormalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-17 Teresa Bautista , Atish Dabholkar

A covariant Hamiltonian formulation generalizing De Donder-Weyl mechanics is constructed with field strengths as velocity fields. Since the teleparallel equivalents to general relativity are quadratic in field strengths, the field-strength…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 David Chester , Vipul Pandey

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 study classical solutions in the Weyl-transverse (WTDiff) gravity. The WTDiff gravity is invariant under both the local Weyl (conformal) transformation and the volume preserving diffeormorphisms (transverse diffeomorphisms) and is known…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-25 Ichiro Oda

General Relativity (GR) and Unimodular Gravity (UG) provide two equivalent descriptions of gravity that differ in the nature of the cosmological constant. While GR is based on the group of diffeomorphisms that permits the cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-03 Gerardo García-Moreno , Alejandro Jiménez Cano

We perform a manifestly covariant quantization of a Weyl invariant, i.e., a locally scale invariant, scalar-tensor gravity in the extended de Donder gauge condition (or harmonic gauge condition) for general coordinate invariance and a new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-29 Ichiro Oda

We study classical solutions in the Weyl-transverse (WTDiff) gravity coupled to an electro-magnetic field in four space-time dimensions. The WTDiff gravity is invariant under both the local Weyl (conformal) transformation and the volume…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-23 Ichiro Oda

We study the Weyl vector fields which can play an important role in quantum gravity. The metric obtains its dynamical content after dynamical symmetry breaking in the phase of the effective Einstein gravity which is induced by quantum Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-28 B. S. Park , D. G. Pak