A study of the spherically symmetric vacuum solution to Conformal (Weyl) Gravity
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We study in detail the static spherically symmetric vacuum solution to conformal (Weyl) gravity. One of the more striking aspects of the solution is the presence of a physical singularity at r = 0 due to the linear term in the metric. Using Penrose diagrams we determine which conformally flat space-times allow light to scatter from infinity and calculate the trajectories and deflection of light for these space-times.
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