Local conformal symmetry: the missing symmetry component for space and time

DOI10.1142/S0218271815430014zbMATH Open1329.81236arXiv1410.6675MaRDI QIDQ3464433FDOQ3464433

Authors: Gerard 't Hooft 

Publication date: 27 January 2016

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Local conformal symmetry is usually considered to be an approximate symmetry of nature, which is explicitly and badly broken. Arguments are brought forward here why it has to be turned into an exact symmetry that is spontaneously broken. As in the B.E.H. mechanism in Yang-Mills theories, we then will have a mechanism for disclosing the small-distance structure of the gravitational force. The symmetry could be as fundamental as Lorentz invariance, and guide us towards a complete understanding of physics at the Planck scale.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.6675

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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