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Gauge Transformations Of The Biconformal Connection, James Thomas Wheeler Dec 2014

Gauge Transformations Of The Biconformal Connection, James Thomas Wheeler

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We study the changes of the biconformal gauge fields under the local rotational and dilatational gauge transformations.


Weyl Gravity As General Relativity, James Thomas Wheeler Jul 2014

Weyl Gravity As General Relativity, James Thomas Wheeler

James Thomas Wheeler

When the full connection of Weyl conformal gravity is varied instead of just the metric, the resulting vacuum field equations reduce to the vacuum Einstein equation, up to the choice of local units, if and only if the torsion vanishes. This result differs strongly from the usual fourth-order formulation of Weyl gravity.