Weyl-ambient geometries

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2023.116224zbMATH Open1530.81111arXiv2301.06628OpenAlexW4367857148MaRDI QIDQ6041099FDOQ6041099

Authors: Weizhen Jia, Manthos Karydas, Robert G. Leigh 

Publication date: 25 May 2023

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

Abstract: Weyl geometry is a natural extension of conformal geometry with Weyl covariance mediated by a Weyl connection. We generalize the Fefferman-Graham (FG) ambient construction for conformal manifolds to a corresponding construction for Weyl manifolds. We first introduce the Weyl-ambient metric motivated by the Weyl-Fefferman-Graham (WFG) gauge. From a top-down perspective, we show that the Weyl-ambient space as a pseudo-Riemannian geometry induces a codimension-2 Weyl geometry. Then, from a bottom-up perspective, we start from promoting a conformal manifold into a Weyl manifold by assigning a Weyl connection to the principal $mathbb{R}_{+}$-bundle realizing a Weyl structure. We show that the Weyl structure admits a well-defined initial value problem, which determines the Weyl-ambient metric. Through the Weyl-ambient construction, we also investigate Weyl-covariant tensors on the Weyl manifold and define extended Weyl-obstruction tensors explicitly.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06628

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automata and formal grammars in connection with logical questions (03D05) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) General theory of conformal mappings (30C35) Correspondence, duality, holography (AdS/CFT, gauge/gravity, etc.) (81T35) Conformal structures on manifolds (53C18)

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