Time and dark matter from the conformal symmetries of Euclidean space

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/21/215001zbMATH Open1307.83018arXiv1305.6972OpenAlexW1971146052MaRDI QIDQ2936451FDOQ2936451

Authors: Jeffrey S. Hazboun, James T. Wheeler 

Publication date: 16 December 2014

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

Abstract: The quotient of the conformal group of Euclidean 4-space by its Weyl subgroup results in a geometry possessing many of the properties of relativistic phase space, including both a natural symplectic form and non-degenerate Killing metric. We show that the general solution posesses orthogonal Lagrangian submanifolds, with the induced metric and the spin connection on the submanifolds necessarily Lorentzian, despite the Euclidean starting pont. By examining the structure equations of the biconformal space in an orthonormal frame adapted to its phase space properties, we also find that two new tensor fields exist in this geometry, not present in Riemannian geometry. The first is a combination of the Weyl vector with the scale factor on the metric, and determines the timelike directions on the submanifolds. The second comes from the components of the spin connection, symmetric with respect to the new metric. Though this field comes from the spin connection it transforms homogeneously. Finally, we show that in the absence of conformal curvature or sources, the configuration space has geometric terms equivalent to a perfect fluid and a cosmological constant.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.6972

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zbMATH Keywords

timedark mattergeneral relativityconformal gravityCartan curvatureinduced metricspin connectiongravitational gauge theoryWeyl vectorbiconformal spaceconformal symmetries of Euclidean space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Euclidean analytic geometry (51N20) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Gravitational waves (83C35) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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