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arxiv: 1305.6830 · v2 · pith:6DLQEYXNnew · submitted 2013-05-29 · 🌀 gr-qc

Weyl geometry and gauge-invariant gravitation

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keywords descriptionproper-timerelationtheoryfieldsgaugegauge-invariantgeneral
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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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