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We show how to take the first step in the conformal program for constructing general matter couplings to Carroll gravity. In particular, we couple a single massless electric/magnetic scalar to conformal Carroll gravity with isotropic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-24 Eric A. Bergshoeff , Patrick Concha , Octavio Fierro , Evelyn Rodríguez , Jan Rosseel

Logarithmic representations of the conformal Galilean algebra (CGA) and the Exotic Conformal Galilean algebra ({\sc ecga}) are constructed. This can be achieved by non-decomposable representations of the scaling dimensions or the rapidity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-10 Malte Henkel , Ali Hosseiny , Shahin Rouhani

The article deals with G\"odel-like solutions in the context of Galilean gravity, a geometric formulation of non-relativistic gravitation defined on a five-dimensional Galilean manifold. Within this framework, non-relativistic matter fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 A. F. Santos , R. G. G. Amorim , K. V. S. Araújo , S. C. Ulhoa

Conformal transformations of the following kinds are compared: (1) conformal coordinate transformations, (2) conformal transformations of Lagrangian models for a D-dimensional geometry, given by a Riemannian manifold M with metric g of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Rainer

We make a detailed study of the infinite dimensional Galilean Conformal Algebra (GCA) in the case of two spacetime dimensions. Classically, this algebra is precisely obtained from a contraction of the generators of the relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-08 Arjun Bagchi , Rajesh Gopakumar , Ipsita Mandal , Akitsugu Miwa

This article provides us with a unifying classification of the conformal infinitesimal symmetries of non-relativistic Newton-Cartan spacetime. The Lie algebras of non-relativistic conformal transformations are introduced via the Galilei…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-05 Christian Duval , Péter A. Horvathy

In this paper, we propose a novel way to construct off-shell actions of $d$-dimensional Carrollian field theories by considering the null-reduction of the Bargmann invariant actions in $d+1$ dimensions. This is based on the fact that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-11 Bin Chen , Reiko Liu , Haowei Sun , Yu-fan Zheng

The nonlinear scalar-field realisation of $w_{1+\infty}$ symmetry in $d=2$ dimensions is studied in analogy to the nonlinear realisation of $d=4$ conformal symmetry $SO(4,2)$. The $w_{1+\infty}$ realisation is derived from a coset-space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 E. Sezgin , K. S. Stelle

We discuss a formulation of Galileon actions in terms of matrix determinants in four dimensions. This approach allows one to straightforwardly determine derivative couplings between Galileons and scalar or vector degrees of freedom that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Gianmassimo Tasinato

We perform a detailed analysis of Galilean field theories, starting with free theories and then interacting theories. We consider non-relativistic versions of massless scalar and Dirac field theories before we go on to review our previous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-23 Arjun Bagchi , Joydeep Chakrabortty , Aditya Mehra

The Galilean Conformal Algebra (GCA) arises from the relativistic conformal algebra in the non-relativistic limit. In two dimensions, one can view it as a limit of linear combinations of the two copies Virasoro algebra. Recently, it has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-18 Arjun Bagchi

We propose a first-order geometric Lagrangian for four-dimensional conformal gravity within the Cartan formulation, which yields, dynamically, the standard constraints on the fields, expected for conformal gravity. Upon imposing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-11 L. Andrianopoli , R. D'Auria , G. Grosso , L. Ravera

The Galilean Conformal Algebra (GCA) arises in taking the non-relativistic limit of the symmetries of a relativistic Conformal Field Theory in any dimensions. It is known to be infinite-dimensional in all spacetime dimensions. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-10 Arjun Bagchi , Arnab Kundu

We present the minimal realization of the $\ell$-conformal Galilei group in 2+1 dimensions on a single complex field. The simplest Lagrangians yield the complex Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator equations. We introduce a minimal deformation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Sergey Krivonos , Olaf Lechtenfeld , Alexander Sorin

The Hamiltonian approach to the General Relativity is formulated as a joint nonlinear realization of conformal and affine symmetries by means of the Dirac scalar dilaton and the Maurer-Cartan forms. The dominance of the Casimir vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 V. N. Pervushin , A. B. Arbuzov , B. M. Barbashov , R. G. Nazmitdinov , A. Borowiec , K. N. Pichugin , A. F. Zakharov

The DBI and special galileon theories exhibit a conformal symmetry at unphysical values of the spacetime dimension. We find the Lagrangian form of this symmetry. The special conformal transformations are non-linearly realized on the fields,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 Kara Farnsworth , Kurt Hinterbichler , Ondrej Hulik

We investigate the existence of action for both the electric and magnetic sectors of Galilean Electrodynamics using Helmholtz conditions. We prove the existence of unique action in magnetic limit with the addition of a scalar field in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-13 Kinjal Banerjee , Rudranil Basu , Akhila Mohan

Non-relativistic versions of the AdS/CFT conjecture have recently been investigated in some detail. These have primarily been in the context of the Schrodinger symmetry group. Here we initiate a study based on a {\it different}…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-22 Arjun Bagchi , Rajesh Gopakumar

We investigate the conformal invariant Lagrangian of the self-gravitating U(1) scalar-gauge field and find new features of the model on the time-dependent axially symmetric Bondi-Marder spacetime. By considering the conformal symmetry as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-06 Reinoud Jan Slagter

We draw attention to a novel type of geometric gauge invariance relating the autoparallel equations of motion in different Riemann-Cartan spacetimes with each other. The novelty lies in the fact that the equations of motion are invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-17 H. Kleinert , A. Pelster