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Conformal actions in any dimension

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Biconformal gauging of the conformal group has a scale-invariant volume form, permitting a single form of the action to be invariant in any dimension. We display several 2n-dim scale-invariant polynomial actions and a dual action. We solve the field equations for the most general action linear in the curvatures for a minimal torsion geometry. In any dimension n>2, the solution is foliated by equivalent n-dim Ricci-flat Riemannian spacetimes, and the full 2n-dim space is symplectic. Two fields defined entirely on the Riemannian submanifolds completely determine the solution: a metric, and a symmetric tensor.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9812099,
  title  = {Conformal actions in any dimension},
  author = {A. Wehner and J. T. Wheeler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9812099},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

35 pages, now includes comparisons with other theories; one added reference

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