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The Virasoro group and the fourth geometry of Poincar\'e

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We investigate, in some details, symplectic equivalence between several conformal classes of Lorentz metrics on the hyperboloid of one sheet H1,1T×TΔH^{1,1} \cong T \times T - \Delta and affine coadjoint orbits of the group Diff+(Δ)Diff_+(\Delta) of orientation preserving diffeomorphisms of ΔT\Delta \cong T with its natural projective structure. This will allow for generalizations, namely, to the case of arbitrary projective structures on null infinity.

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@article{arxiv.math/9806135,
  title  = {The Virasoro group and the fourth geometry of Poincar\'e},
  author = {C. Duval and L. Guieu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9806135},
  year   = {2007}
}

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27 pages, LaTeX