Conformal invariance and torsion in general relativity (Q1084684)

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Conformal invariance and torsion in general relativity
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    Conformal invariance and torsion in general relativity (English)
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    With a quantised theory in mind a classical theory which is conformally invariant and contains torsion and also a scalar field is constructed by assuming an arbitrary affine connection subject only to the metric having zero covariant derivative. The interpretation proposed for the resulting spin-1 vector field is electromagtic.
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    asymmetric connection
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    conformally invariant
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    torsion
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    scalar field
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