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Applied foliated conformal Carroll symmetries

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-01-09 v1

Abstract

We apply the conformal compensating technique for constructing matter couplings to conformal scalars on a DD-dimensional foliated conformal Carroll manifold dividing the tangent space into (p+1)(p+1)-dimensional longitudinal and (Dp1)(D-p-1)-dimensional transversal directions corresponding to pp-branes. We show that the conformal Carroll algebra that was used for particle-like foliated geometries with p=0p=0 cannot be used for higher-dimensional objects, called pp-branes, with 0<pD20 < p \le D-2. 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 p=1p=1. 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

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