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Weyl geometry and gauge-invariant gravitation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2014-10-31 v2

Abstract

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 space-time description. As a consequence of this relation and the theory's gauge symmetry we recover all predictions of General Relativity. This feature is made even clearer by a new exact solution we provide which reveals the importance of a well defined proper-time. The thermodynamical description of the source fields is given and we observe that each of the geometric fields have a certain physical significance, despite the gauge-invariance. This is shown by two examples, where one of them consists of a new cosmological constant solution. Our conclusions highlight the intimate relation among test particles trajectories, proper-time and space-time description which can also be applied in any other situation, whether or not it recovers General Relativity results and also in the absence of a gauge symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.1305.6830,
  title  = {Weyl geometry and gauge-invariant gravitation},
  author = {F. P. Poulis and J. M. Salim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.6830},
  year   = {2014}
}

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25 pages

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