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20202026
most citedThe origin of Weyl gauging in metric-affine theories

17 citations · 56 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

gr-qc2026

Extrinsic geometry and Hamiltonian analysis of symmetric teleparallel gravity

Salvatore Capozziello, Dario Sauro

We analyze the properties of foliations in presence of non-metricity, deriving the generalized Gauss-Codazzi relations in full generality. These results are employed to study the t…

hep-th2025

Conformal gauge theory of vector-spinors and spin-3/2 particles

Dario Sauro

The unique off-shell fermionic gauge invariance of a vector-spinor field theory is found, and the invariant action is derived. The latter is Weyl invariant in any dimension in the…

hep-th2025★ 2 cited

Heat kernel of non-minimal second-order operators

Dario Sauro

We analyze the spectra of general non-minimal second-order operators. To do this, we derive the local part of the trace of the second Seeley-DeWitt heat kernel coefficient for such…

hep-th2024

Hidden gauge invariances of torsion theories: closed algebras and absence of ghosts

Dario Sauro

We study the possible affine gauge transformations of the torsion tensor that make up Lie algebras. We find two such non-trivial structures, in which the gauge parameters are a …

hep-th2024

Substructures of the Weyl group and their physical applications

Riccardo Martini, Gregorio Paci, Dario Sauro +2

We study substructures of the Weyl group of conformal transformations of the metric of (pseudo)Riemannian manifolds. These substructures are identified by differential constraints…

gr-qc2023★ 4 cited

Radiative corrections to the and invariants from torsion fluctuations on maximally symmetric spaces

Riccardo Martini, Gregorio Paci, Dario Sauro

We derive the runnings of the and operators that stem from integrating out quantum torsion fluctuations on a maximally symmetric Euclidean background, while treating the…

gr-qc2023★ 8 cited

Covariant spin-parity decomposition of the Torsion and Path Integrals

Riccardo Martini, Gregorio Paci, Dario Sauro

We propose a functional measure over the torsion tensor. We discuss two completely equivalent choices for the Wheeler-DeWitt supermetric for this field, the first one being based o…

hep-th2023

Composite higher derivative operators in dimensions and the spectrum of asymptotically safe gravity

Riccardo Martini, Dario Sauro, Omar Zanusso

We discuss the renormalization of Einstein-Hilbert's gravity in dimensions. We show that the application of the path-integral approach leads naturally to scheme- and gauge-…

hep-th2023★ 9 cited

Conformally covariant operators of mixed-symmetry tensors and MAGs

Gregorio Paci, Dario Sauro, Omar Zanusso

We compute conformally covariant actions and operators for tensors with mixed symmetries in arbitrary dimension . Our results complete the classification of conformal actions th…

hep-th2022★ 14 cited

Projective transformations in metric-affine and Weylian geometries

Dario Sauro, Riccardo Martini, Omar Zanusso

We discuss generalizations of the notions of projective transformations acting on affine model of Riemann-Cartan and Riemann-Cartan-Weyl gravity which preserve the projective struc…

hep-th2022★ 17 cited

The origin of Weyl gauging in metric-affine theories

Dario Sauro, Omar Zanusso

In the first part, we discuss the interplay between local scale invariance and metric-affine degrees of freedom from few distinct points of view. We argue, rather generally, that t…

hep-th2020★ 2 cited

On the Nelson-Seiberg theorem: generalizations and counter-examples

Antonio Amariti, Dario Sauro

In this note we elaborate on a recent counter-example to the Nelson-Seiberg theorem and to its generalizations. We provide sufficient conditions for the existence of such counter-e…