Spacetimes with vector distortion: Inflation from generalised Weyl geometry

Spacetime with general linear vector distortion is introduced. Thus, the torsion and the nonmetricity of the affine connection are assumed to be proportional to a vector field (and not its derivatives). The resulting two-parameter family of non-Riemannian geometries generalises the conformal Weyl ge...

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Main Authors: Jose Beltrán Jiménez, Tomi S. Koivisto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-05-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269316300181