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The Weyl-Wigner map yields the entire structure of Moyal quantum mechanics directly from the standard operator formulation. The covariant generalization of Moyal theory, also known as Vey quantum mechanics, was presented in the literature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Nuno Costa Dias , Joao Nuno Prata

We analyze oriented Riemannian 4-manifolds whose Weyl tensors $W$ satisfy the conformally invariant condition $W(T,\cdot,\cdot,T) = 0$ for some nonzero vector $T$. While this can be algebraically classified via $W$'s normal form, we find a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Amir Babak Aazami

This paper derives new identities for the Weyl tensor on a gradient Ricci soliton, particularly in dimension four. First, we prove a Bochner-Weitzenb\"ock type formula for the norm of the self-dual Weyl tensor and discuss its applications,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Xiaodong Cao , Hung Tran

We give a classification of the type D spacetimes based on the invariant differential properties of the Weyl principal structure. Our classification is established using tensorial invariants of the Weyl tensor and, consequently, besides its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 J. J. Ferrando , J. A. Sáez

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

We discuss locally Weyl (scale) covariant generalisation of quadratic curvature gravity theory in three dimensions using Riemann-Cartan-Weyl space-times. We show that this procedure of Weyl gauging yields a consistent generalisation for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 Tekin Dereli , Cem Yetişmişoğlu

We give a general expression for the Weyl tensor two-point function in a general Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker spacetime. We work in reduced phase space for the perturbations, i.e., quantize only the dynamical degrees of freedom…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-09 Markus B. Fröb

We construct non-commutative theories with the Moyal-Weyl product in the Double Field Theory (DFT) framework. We deform the infinitesimal generalized diffeomorphisms and the Leibniz rule in a consistent way. The prescription requires a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-11 Toni Kodzoman , Eric Lescano

We prove the existence of compact pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with parallel Weyl tensor which are neither conformally flat nor locally symmetric, and represent all indefinite metric signatures in all dimensions $\,n\ge5$. Until now such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Andrzej Derdzinski , Ivo Terek

A peeling theorem for the Weyl tensor in higher dimensional Lorentzian manifolds is presented. We obtain it by generalizing a proof from the four dimensional case. We derive a generic behavior, discuss interesting subcases and retrieve the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Selim Amar

We prove the analogue of Weyl's law for a noncommutative Riemannian manifold, namely the noncommutative two torus $\mathbb{T}_\theta^2$ equipped with a general translation invariant conformal structure and a Weyl conformal factor. This is…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Farzad Fathizadeh , Masoud Khalkhali

In 1966, B. O'Neill [The fundamental equations of a submersion, Michigan Math. J., Volume 13, Issue 4 (1966), 459-469.] obtained some fundamental equations and curvature relations between the total space, the base space and the fibres of a…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Mehmet Akif Akyol , Gülhan Ayar

Algebraically special gravitational fields are described using algebraic and differential invariants of the Weyl tensor. A type III invariant is also given and calculated for Robinson-Trautman spaces.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Bogdan Nita , Ivor Robinson

We introduce a natural extension of the metric tensor and the Hodge star operator to the algebra of double forms to study some aspects of the structure of this algebra. These properties are then used to study new Riemannian curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. -L. Labbi

In this work we present a derivation of Dirac's equation in a curved space-time starting from a Weyl-invariant action principle in 4+K dimensions. The Weyl invariance of Dirac's equation (and of Quantum Mechanics in general) is made…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Enrico Santamato , Francesco De Martini

The action of Weyl scale invariant p=2 brane which breaks the target super Weyl scale symmetry in the N=1, D=4 superspace down to the lower dimensional Weyl symmetry W(1,2) is derived by the approach of nonlinear realization. The dual form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Lu-Xin Liu

Scale-invariant actions in arbitrary dimensions are investigated in curved space to clarify the relation between scale-, Weyl- and conformal invariance on the classical level. The global Weyl-group is gauged. Then the class of actions is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Iorio , L. O'Raifeartaigh , I. Sachs , C. Wiesendanger

Double field theory provides T-duality covariant generalized tensors that are natural extensions of the scalar and Ricci curvatures of Riemannian geometry. We search for a similar extension of the Riemann curvature tensor by developing a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Olaf Hohm , Barton Zwiebach

Here is discussed generalization of Clifford algebras, l^n-dimensional Weyl-Clifford algebras T(n,l) with n generators t_k satisfying equation $(\sum_{k=1}^n a_k t_k)^l = \sum_{k=1}^n a_k^l$. It is originated from two basic and well known…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Yu. Vlasov

We discuss the physics of {\it restricted Weyl invariance}, a symmetry of dimensionless actions in four dimensional curved space time. When we study a scalar field nonminimally coupled to gravity with Weyl(conformal) weight of $-1$ (i.e.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-27 Ariel Edery , Yu Nakayama