Constructing conformally invariant equations using the Weyl geometry

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/11/115005MaRDI QIDQ2841439zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sofiane Faci

Publication date 25 July 2013

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.2599

zbMATH Keywords

conformally invariant spin-2 field equationRiemann spacesWeyl connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave equation (35L05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We present a simple, systematic and practical method to construct conformally invariant equations in arbitrary Riemann spaces. This method that we call "Weyl-to-Riemann" is based on two features of Weyl geometry. i) A Weyl space is defined by the metric tensor and the Weyl vector $W$, it becomes equivalent to a Riemann space when $W$ is gradient. ii) Any homogeneous differential equation written in a Weyl space by means of the Weyl connection is conformally invariant. The Weyl-to-Riemann method selects those equations whose conformal invariance is preserved when reducing to a Riemann space. Applications to scalar, vector and spin-2 fields are presented, which demonstrates the efficiency of the present method. In particular, a new conformally invariant spin-2 field equation is exhibited. This equation extends Grishchuk-Yudin's equation and fixes its limitations since it does not require the Lorenz gauge. Moreover this equation reduces to the Drew-Gegenberg and Deser-Nepomechie equations in respectively Minkowski and de Sitter spaces.

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