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Conformal Invariance of the Newtonian Weyl Tensor

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-10-28 v1

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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@article{arxiv.2009.09733,
  title  = {Conformal Invariance of the Newtonian Weyl Tensor},
  author = {Neil Dewar and James Read},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.09733},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

10 pages, forthcoming in Foundations of Physics