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A scenario based on the scale invariance for explaining the vanishing cosmological constant (CC) is discussed. I begin with a notice on the miraculous fact of the CC problem that the vacuum energies totally vanish at each step of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-07 Taichiro Kugo

Recently the vector inflation has been proposed as the alternative to inflationary models based on scalar bosons and quintessence scalar fields. In the vector inflationary model, the vector field non-minimally couples to gravity. We should,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-06 Takuya Maki , Yuji Naramoto , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

Vacuum cosmological models are considered in the context of a multidimensional theory of gravity with integrable Weyl geometry. A family of exact solutions with a chain of internal spaces is obtained. Models with one internal space are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 K. A. Bronnikov , V. N. Melnikov

We consider a generalization of Einstein's general theory of relativity such that it respects local scale invariance. This requires the introduction of a scalar and a vector field in the action. We show that the theory naturally displays…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 Pavan Kumar Aluri , Pankaj Jain , Naveen K. Singh

In this work we consider a dark matter candidate described by an ultralight vector field, whose mass is in principle in the range $H_{\rm{eq}}\sim 10^{-28}\rm{eV}\ll m< \rm{eV}$. The homogeneous background vector field is assumed to point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 Tomás Ferreira Chase , Matías Leizerovich , Diana López Nacir , Susana Landau

We construct a class of theories which are scale invariant on quantum level in all orders of perturbation theory. In a subclass of these models scale invariance is spontaneously broken, leading to the existence of a massless dilaton. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-16 Mikhail Shaposhnikov , Daniel Zenhausern

We investigate cosmological inflationary scenarios from a gravitoelectromagnetic theory. Our work is formulated in the light of a recently introduced geometrical Weyl-Invariant scalar-tensor theory of gravity, where the nature of both the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-10 M. Montes , José Edgar Madriz Aguilar , V. Granados

Energy transfer in the dark sector of the universe gives rise to new phenomena of special interest in modern cosmology. When dark energy is modeled as a phantom scalar field, interactions become crucial to avoid Big Rip singularities. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-17 Genly Leon , Daya Shankar , Amlan Halder , Andronikos Paliathanasis

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

General Relativity extended through a dynamical scalar quartet is proposed as a theory of the scalar-vector-tensor gravity, generically describing the unified gravitational dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE). The implementation in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-11 Yury F. Pirogov

Starting with the idea to describe phenomenologically the particle creation in the strong gravitational fields, we introduced explicitly the particle number nonconservation (= creation law) into the action integral with the corresponding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-27 V. A. Berezin , V. I. Dokuchaev , Yu. N. Eroshenko

A certain vector-tensor (VT) theory is revisited. It was proposed and analyzed as a theory of electromagnetism without the standard gauge invariance. Our attention is first focused on a detailed variational formulation of the theory, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-15 Roberto Dale , Diego Sáez

We investigate the possibility of inducing the cosmological constant from extra dimensions by embedding our four-dimensional Riemannian space-time into a five-dimensional Weyl integrable space. Following approach of the induced matter…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-05 Jose Edgar Madriz Aguilar , Carlos Romero

We investigate in this paper the cosmological evolution of a dark energy model with two scalar fields where one of the scalar has canonical kinetic energy and another scalar has negative kinetic energy term. For such a system with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zong-Kuan Guo , Yun-Song Piao , Xinmin Zhang , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

H. Weyl's proposal of 1918 for generalizing Riemannian geometry by local scale gauge (later called {\em Weyl geometry}) was motivated by mathematical, philosophical and physical considerations. It was the starting point of his unified field…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Erhard Scholz

We investigate a bouncing cosmological model within the Weyl-type $f(Q)$ gravity framework, employing a power-law form of the non-metricity scalar $Q$. The model successfully resolves the initial singularity problem by demonstrating a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-04 Rita Rani , G. K. Goswami , J. K. Singh , Sushant G. Ghosh , Sunil D Maharaj

In this work we present the foundations of generalized scalar-tensor theories arising from vector bundle constructions, and we study the kinematic, dynamical and cosmological consequences. In particular, over a pseudo-Riemannian space-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-15 Spyros Konitopoulos , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , P. C. Stavrinos , A. Triantafyllopoulos

It was argued recently that conformal invariance in flat spacetime implies Weyl invariance in a general curved background for unitary theories and possible anomalies in the Weyl variation of scalar operators are identified. We argue that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Feng Wu

A cosmic scalar field evolving very slowly in time can account for the observed dark energy of the Universe. Unlike a cosmological constant, an evolving scalar field also has local spatial gradients due to gravity. If the scalar field has a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-01 Michael V. Romalis , Robert R. Caldwell

We study inflation in Weyl gravity. The original Weyl quadratic gravity, based on Weyl conformal geometry, is a theory invariant under Weyl symmetry of (gauged) local scale transformations. In this theory Planck scale ($M$) emerges as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 D. M. Ghilencea