Dimensional reduction of conformal tensors and Einstein-Weyl spaces

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2007.091MaRDI QIDQ2473495zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors R. Jackiw

Publication date 27 February 2008

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.3788, https://eudml.org/doc/54124, http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/2007/091/

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal tensorsdimensional reductionKaluza-Klein

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: Conformal Weyl and Cotton tensors are dimensionally reduced by a Kaluza-Klein procedure. Explicit formulas are given for reducing from four and three dimensions to three and two dimensions, respectively. When the higher dimensional conformal tensor vanishes because the space is conformallly flat, the lower-dimensional Kaluza-Klein functions satisfy equations that coincide with the Einstein-Weyl equations in three dimensions and kink equations in two dimensions.

Review text

The author examines a mathematical problem that concerns the dimenional reduction of geometric conformal Weyl and Cotton tensors from \(n\) to \(n-1\) dimensions. The metric functions are taken to be independent of the ``last coordinate. In the Section 2 the conformal tensors are described. In Section 3 the dimensional reduction fron \(n\) to \(n-1\) dimensions is presented. Two general features are discussed. Explicit formulas are given for reducing from four and three dimensions to three and two dimensions. In Section 4 embedding in a conformally flat space is considered. In Section 5 other work is discussed.

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