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Conformal actions in any dimension

Authors :
James Thomas Wheeler
Andre Wehner
Source :
All Physics Faculty Publications
Publication Year :
1998
Publisher :
arXiv, 1998.

Abstract

Biconformal gauging of the conformal group has a scale-invariant volume form, permitting a single form of the action to be invariant in any dimension. We display several 2n-dim scale-invariant polynomial actions and a dual action. We solve the field equations for the most general action linear in the curvatures for a minimal torsion geometry. In any dimension n>2, the solution is foliated by equivalent n-dim Ricci-flat Riemannian spacetimes, and the full 2n-dim space is symplectic. Two fields defined entirely on the Riemannian submanifolds completely determine the solution: a metric, and a symmetric tensor.<br />35 pages, now includes comparisons with other theories; one added reference

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
All Physics Faculty Publications
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....a237a732e3c5dc8726abb4e086d7b305
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9812099