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Extremal curves of Perlick's proper time in Weyl geometry

  • E. Rodrigues
  • F. Dahia
  • I. P. Lobo
  • C. Romero
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Abstract

We investigate the extremization of Perlick's proper time in non-integrable Weyl geometry. We derive the corresponding generalized Euler--Lagrange equations and show that the resulting extremals do not, in general, coincide with the autoparallels of the Weyl connection, their difference being governed by the Weyl length curvature and vanishing in the integrable case. A distinctive feature of the extremal equation is its nonlocal character: in the Weyl proper-time parametrization, the acceleration depends explicitly on the remaining proper time to the endpoint of the variational interval. We illustrate this behavior for a weak constant Weyl field and show that a local Lorentz-force dynamics emerges in a double-scaling limit in which the Weyl field vanishes and the terminal proper time diverges while their product remains finite. These results uncover a nontrivial relation between proper-time extremization, Weyl non-integrability, and local force dynamics.

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@misc{rodrigues2026extremal,
  title = {{Extremal curves of Perlick's proper time in Weyl geometry}},
  author = {E. Rodrigues and F. Dahia and I. P. Lobo and C. Romero},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.17774},
  eprint = {2609.17774},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.17774},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY  - UNPB
TI  - Extremal curves of Perlick's proper time in Weyl geometry
AU  - E. Rodrigues
AU  - F. Dahia
AU  - I. P. Lobo
AU  - C. Romero
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/15
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.17774
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.17774
AB  - We investigate the extremization of Perlick's proper time in non-integrable Weyl geometry. We derive the corresponding generalized Euler--Lagrange equations and show that the resulting extremals do not, in general, coincide with the autoparallels of the Weyl connection, their difference being governed by the Weyl length curvature and vanishing in the integrable case. A distinctive feature of the extremal equation is its nonlocal character: in the Weyl proper-time parametrization, the acceleration depends explicitly on the remaining proper time to the endpoint of the variational interval. We illustrate this behavior for a weak constant Weyl field and show that a local Lorentz-force dynamics emerges in a double-scaling limit in which the Weyl field vanishes and the terminal proper time diverges while their product remains finite. These results uncover a nontrivial relation between proper-time extremization, Weyl non-integrability, and local force dynamics.
ER  -