Applied foliated conformal Carroll symmetries
Abstract
We apply the conformal compensating technique for constructing matter couplings to conformal scalars on a -dimensional foliated conformal Carroll manifold dividing the tangent space into -dimensional longitudinal and -dimensional transversal directions corresponding to -branes. We show that the conformal Carroll algebra that was used for particle-like foliated geometries with cannot be used for higher-dimensional objects, called -branes, with . Furthermore, string-like foliated geometries are not suitable for the conformal compensating technique due to the conformal invariance in the longitudinal directions that is present for . All other cases can be dealt with provided one uses a different conformal extension of the Carroll algebra that amounts to a conformal extension in the longitudinal directions only supplemented with an additional an-isotropic dilatation. By brane-duality similar results hold for foliated Galilean geometries which we present as well. Our results nicely fit in with recent work on foliated Aristotelian geometries.
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@article{arxiv.2601.04910,
title = {Applied foliated conformal Carroll symmetries},
author = {Eric A. Bergshoeff and Patrick Concha and Octavio Fierro and Evelyn Rodríguez and Jan Rosseel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.04910},
year = {2026}
}
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31 pages