CONFORMAL INVARIANCE AND QUANTUM ASPECTS OF MATTER

DOI10.1142/S0217751X00000471MaRDI QIDQ4486963zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 21 June 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0011061

zbMATH Keywords

conformal invariancescalar-tensor-theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: The vacuum sector of the Brans-Dicke theory is studied from the viewpoint of a non-conformally invariant gravitational model. We show that, this theory can be conformally symmetrized using an appropriate conformal transformation. The resulting theory allows a particle interpretation, and suggests that the quantum aspects of matter may be geometrized.

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