Local Scale Invariance and General Relativity

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2003-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0312024v2

Int.J.Theor.Phys. 42 (2003) 1835-1847

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

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According to the theory of unimodular relativity developed by Anderson and Finkelstein, the equations of general relativity with a cosmological constant are composed of two independent equations, one which determines the null-cone structure of space-time, another which determines the measure structure of space-time. The field equations that follow from the restricted variational principle of this version of general relativity only determine the null-cone structure and are globally scale-invariant and scale-free. We show that the electromagnetic field may be viewed as a compensating gauge field that guarantees local scale invariance of these field equations. In this way, Weyl's geometry is revived. However, the two principle objections to Weyl's theory do not apply to the present formulation: the Lagrangian remains first order in the curvature scalar and the non-integrability of length only applies to the null-cone structure.

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