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Conformal actions in any dimension
- Source :
- All Physics Faculty Publications
- Publication Year :
- 1998
- Publisher :
- arXiv, 1998.
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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
- Subjects :
- Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Pure mathematics
FOS: Physical sciences
Conformal map
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
Space (mathematics)
Conformal group
Action (physics)
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Volume form
High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
Symmetric tensor
Mathematics::Differential Geometry
Invariant (mathematics)
Conformal symmetry
Gauge theory
Scale invariance
Actions
Symplectic geometry
Subjects
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