Conformal invariance of the Newtonian Weyl tensor

DOI10.1007/S10701-020-00386-WMaRDI QIDQ828375zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Neil Dewar, James Read

Publication date 8 January 2021

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09733

zbMATH Keywords

Weyl tensorconformal invarianceNewton-Cartan theoryconformal Newtonian spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: It is well-known that the conformal structure of a relativistic spacetime is of profound physical and conceptual interest. In this note, we consider the analogous structure for Newtonian theories. We show that the Newtonian Weyl tensor is an invariant of this structure.

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