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We revisit Weyl's metrication (geometrization) of electromagnetism. We show that by making Weyl's proposed geometric connection be pure imaginary, not only are we able to metricate electromagnetism, an underlying local conformal invariance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Philip D. Mannheim

The present work deals with two different but subtilely related kinds of conformal mappings: Weyl rescaling in $d>2$ dimensional spaces and SO(2,d) transformations. We express how the difference between the two can be compensated by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-08 Sofiane Faci

We construct new families of conformally invariant differential operators acting on densities. We introduce a simple, direct approach which shows that all such operators arise via this construction when the degree is bounded by the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Spyros Alexakis

Using variational considerations, we establish that there exists a new symmetric trace-free tensor conformal invariant of hypersurfaces embeddings in even dimensional conformal manifolds. This conformal invariant completes the family of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Samuel Blitz , A. Rod Gover

We show that dual conformal symmetry, mainly studied in planar $\mathcal N = 4$ super-Yang-Mills theory, has interesting consequences for Feynman integrals in nonsupersymmetric theories such as QCD, including the nonplanar sector. A simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Zvi Bern , Michael Enciso , Harald Ita , Mao Zeng

We discuss conformal symmetry on the two dimensional noncommutative plane equipped with Moyal product in the twist deformed context. We show that the consistent use of the twist procedure leads to results which are free from ambiguities.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-11 Fedele Lizzi , Patrizia Vitale

Conformal field theories have been extremely useful in our quest to understand physical phenomena in many different branches of physics, starting from condensed matter all the way up to high energy. Here we discuss applications of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Elias Kokkas , Aaron Bagheri , Zhenghan Wang , George Siopsis

Despite the fact that General Relativity (GR) has been very successful, many alternative theories of gravity have attracted the attention of a significant number of theoretical physicists. Among these theories, we have theories with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-14 J. B. Formiga

Modular equations occur in number theory, but it is less known that such equations also occur in the study of deformation properties of quasiconformal mappings. The authors study two important plane quasiconformal distortion functions,…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2008-05-11 G. D. Anderson , S. -L. Qiu , M. Vuorinen

The two-dimensional case occupies a special position in the theory of critical phenomena due to the exact results provided by lattice solutions and, directly in the continuum, by the infinite-dimensional character of the conformal algebra.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-01 Gesualdo Delfino

Numerous elliptic and parabolic variational problems arising in physics and geometry (Ginzburg-Landau equations, harmonic maps, Yang-Mills fields, Omega-instantons, Yamabe equations, geometric flows in general...) possess a critical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tristan Rivière

We present a general study of 3-point functions of conformal field theory (CFT) in momentum space, following a reconstruction method for tensor correlators, based on the solution of the conformal Ward identities (CWIs), introduced in recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-05 Claudio Coriano , Matteo Maria Maglio

This short note is some obvious mathematical addendum to our papers on Wilson loops on polygon-like contours with circular edges \cite{Dorn:2020meb,Dorn:2020vzj}. Using the technique of osculating spheres and circles we identify the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-06 Harald Dorn

We consider the question of conformal invariance of the long-range Ising model at the critical point. The continuum description is given in terms of a nonlocal field theory, and the absence of a stress tensor invalidates all of the standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Miguel F. Paulos , Slava Rychkov , Balt C. van Rees , Bernardo Zan

QCD in $d=4-2\epsilon$ space-time dimensions possesses a nontrivial critical point. Scale invariance usually implies conformal symmetry so that there are good reasons to expect that QCD at the critical point restricted to the gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 V. M. Braun , A. N. Manashov , S. Moch , M. Strohmaier

Canonical metrics and conformal invariants are presented for closed oriented even-dimensional manifolds with non-degenerate conformal structures and in particular for compact Riemann surfaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-21 Dmitri Scheglov

We introduce conformal anti-invariant submersions from almost Hermitian manifolds onto Riemannian manifolds. We give examples, investigate the geometry of foliations which are arisen from the definition of a conformal submersion and find…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-23 Mehmet Akif Akyol , Bayram Sahin

These pedagogical lectures present some material, classical or more recent, on (Rational) Conformal Field Theories and their general setting ``in the bulk'' or in the presence of a boundary. Two well posed problems are the classification of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean-Bernard Zuber

We study conformal field theory on two-dimensional orbifolds and show this to be an effective way to analyze physical effects of geometric singularities with angular deficits. They are closely related to boundaries and cross caps.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Zheng Yin

In this article, Lie symmetry analysis is used to investigate invariance properties of some nonlinear fractional partial differential equations with conformable fractional time and space derivatives. The analysis is applied to Korteweg-de…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 B. A. Tayyan , A. H. Sakka