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In this paper we explore the physical consequences of assuming Weyl invariance of the laws of gravity from the classical standpoint exclusively. Actual Weyl invariance requires to replace the underlying Riemannian geometrical structure of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-20 Israel Quiros

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

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

This paper gives a brief overview of the manifestly covariant canonical gauge gravity (CCGG) that is rooted in the De Donder-Weyl Hamiltonian formulation of relativistic field theories, and the proven methodology of the canonical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-25 D. Vasak , J. Kirsch , A. van de Venn , V. Denk , J. Struckmeier

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

We introduce an extension of the Standard Model and General Relativity built upon the principle of local conformal invariance, which represents a generalization of a previous work by Bars, Steinhardt and Turok. This is naturally realized by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 Marco de Cesare , John W. Moffat , Mairi Sakellariadou

It is shown that in the quadratic gravity based on Weyl's conformal geometry, the Planck mass scale can be generated from quantum effects of the gravitational field and the Weyl gauge field via the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism where a local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-24 Ichiro Oda

We provide a gauge-invariant theory of gravitation in the context of Weyl Integrable Space-Times. After making a brief review of the theory's postulates, we carefully define the observers' proper-time and point out its relation with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-31 F. P. Poulis , J. M. Salim

In this paper a Weyl geometric scalar tensor theory of gravity with scalar field $\Phi$ and scale invariant cubic ("aquadratic") kinetic Lagrangian is introduced. Einstein gauge (comparable to Einstein frame in Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory) is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-09 Erhard Scholz

The theory of scalar gravity proposed by Nordstr\"{o}m, and refined by Einstein and Fokker, provides a striking analogy to general relativity. In its modern form, scalar gravity appears as the low-energy effective field theory of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Prateek Agrawal , Raman Sundrum

We consider a mimetic type extension of the Weyl geometric gravity theory, by assuming that the metric of the space-time manifold can be parameterized in terms of a scalar field, called the mimetic field. The action of the model is obtained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-19 Daria-Ioana Visa , Tiberiu Harko , Shahab Shahidi

The covariant canonical transformation theory applied to the relativistic Hamiltonian theory of classical matter fields in dynamical space-time yields a novel (first order) gauge field theory of gravitation. The emerging field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-29 David Vasak , Johannes Kirsch , Dirk Kehm , Juergen Struckmeier

Motivated by conventional gauge theories, we consider a theory of gravity in which the Einstein-Hilbert action is replaced by a term that is quadratic in the Riemann tensor. We focus on cosmological solutions to the field equations in flat,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Lasenby , C. J. L. Doran , R. Heineke

We compute the evolution of cosmological perturbations in a recently proposed Weyl-symmetric theory of two scalar fields with oppositely-signed conformal couplings to Einstein gravity. It is motivated from the minimal conformal extension of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-08 Marius Oltean , Robert Brandenberger

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 study various classical aspects of the Weyl transverse (WTDiff) gravity in a general space-time dimension. First of all, we clarify a classical equivalence among three kinds of gravitational theories, those are, the conformally-invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Ichiro Oda

We point out a new phenomenon which seems to be generic in 4d effective theories of scalar fields coupled to Einstein gravity, when applied to cosmology. A lift of such theories to a Weyl-invariant extension allows one to define classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Itzhak Bars , Shih-Hung Chen , Paul J. Steinhardt , Neil Turok

We propose new models of an `affine' theory of gravity in $D$-dimensional space-times with symmetric connections. They are based on ideas of Weyl, Eddington and Einstein and, in particular, on Einstein's proposal to specify the space - time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 A. T. Filippov

We develop and apply a fully covariant 1+3 electromagnetic analogy for gravity. The free gravitational field is covariantly characterized by the Weyl gravito-electric and gravito-magnetic spatial tensor fields, whose dynamical equations are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Roy Maartens , Bruce A. Bassett