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Cosmological evolution in Weyl conformal geometry

@inproceedings{Ghilencea2021CosmologicalEI,
title={Cosmological evolution in Weyl conformal geometry},
author={Dumitru M. Ghilencea and Tiberiu Harko},
year={2021}
}
• Published 13 October 2021
• Physics
We discuss the cosmological evolution of the Weyl conformal geometry and its associated Weyl quadratic gravity. The Einstein gravity (with a positive cosmological constant) is recovered in the spontaneously broken phase of Weyl gravity; this happens after the Weyl gauge field (ωμ) of scale symmetry, that is part of the Weyl geometry, becomes massive by Stueckelberg mechanism and decouples. This breaking is a natural result of the cosmological evolution of Weyl geometry, in the absence of matter…
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