Nonrelativistic conformal groups

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The authors have undertaken a systematic study of the finite-dimensional non-relativistic conformal groups from two complementary standpoints. The conformal Killing equation is solved, first to construct a whole family of finite-dimensional conformal algebras, corresponding to the Galilei and Newton-Hooke kinematic groups, and then to study their algebraic and geometrical properties. Particularly, the semi-direct product structure, contractions and certain nontrivial extensions are successfully introduced. Behaviour of the affine connection and curvature forms, transformation, conservation of angles and inversions are studied in detail. In the final section the authors summarize remarks and conclusions of the paper. Appendix A discusses some central extensions of Lie algebras, the second appendix deals with affine connections, while the third appendix describes similitude algebras.




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