Gauge approach to the symmetric teleparallel gravity

Abstract

We discuss a gauge invariant gravity model in a non-Riemannian geometry in which the curvature and the torsion both are zero, the nonmetricity is nonzero. We also argue that only a metric ansatz is enough to start finding solutions to the field equations. As an application, we obtain explicitly a conformally flat solution. © 2018 World Scientific Publishing Company.