Conformal actions in any dimension

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00367-3MaRDI QIDQ1572264zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors André Wehner, James T. Wheeler

Publication date 12 July 2000

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9812099

zbMATH Keywords

conformal groupminimal torsion geometryRicci-flat Riemannian spacetimesscale-invariant volume formsymplectic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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.

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