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Perfect fluid space-times admitting a three-dimensional Lie group of conformal motions containing a two-dimensional Abelian Lie subgroup of isometries are studied. Demanding that the conformal Killing vector be proper (i.e., not homothetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 J. Carot , A. A. Coley , A. M. Sintes

The 8 $\times$ 8 matrix representation of SO(8) Symmetry has been defined by using the direct product of Pauli matrices and Gamma matrices. These 8 $\times$ 8 matrices are being used to describe the rotations in SO(8) symmetry. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-12 Pushpa , P. S. Bisht , Tianjun Li , O. P. S. Negi

The unique Nature of the Lorentz group in four dimensions is the root cause of the many remarkable properties of the Einstein spacetimes, in particular their operational structure on the 2-forms. We show how this operational structure can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-19 Jack C. M. Hughes , Fedor V. Kusmartsev

M\"obius transformations of the extended complex plane are at the crossroads of many interesting topics, e.g., they form a group under composition, are the simplest form of rational function, and are a path to Lie theory. Quaternionic…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2015-06-02 Tony Thrall

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Wehner , J. T. Wheeler

We investigate octonion product deformations coming from the parallelizable torsion of the 7-sphere $S^7$, obtaining a family of geometries from solutions of the Lagrangian formalism movement equations. This can be achieved by analyzing the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-22 Aquerman Yanes

A two-dimensional Minkowski spacetime diagram is neatly represented on a Euclidean ordinary plane. However the Euclidean lengths of the lines on the diagram do not correspond to the true values of physical quantities in spacetime, except…

General Physics · Physics 2007-06-15 Nilton Penha , Bernhard Rothenstein , Doru Paunescu

In recent years, there is a growing interest in the studying octonions, which are 8-dimensional hypercomplex numbers forming the biggest normed division algebras over the real numbers. In particular, various tools of the classical complex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Rolf Sören Kraußhar , Anastasiia Legatiuk , Dmitrii Legatiuk

The space $\mathcal{Z}$ of leftinvariant orthogonal almost complex structures, keeping the orientation, on 6-dimensional Lie groups is researched. To get explicit view of this space elements the isomorphism of $\mathcal{Z}$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-05 Natalia Daurtseva

A simple model for the localization of the category $\mathbf{CLoc}_2$ of oriented and time-oriented globally hyperbolic conformal Lorentzian $2$-manifolds at all Cauchy morphisms is constructed. This provides an equivalent description of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Marco Benini , Luca Giorgetti , Alexander Schenkel

This paper is the second part of a series that develops the mathematical framework necessary for studying field theories on ``T-Minkowski'' noncommutative spacetimes. These spacetimes constitute a class of noncommutative geometries,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-18 Flavio Mercati

Deformation K-theory associates to each discrete group G a spectrum built from spaces of finite dimensional unitary representations of G. In all known examples, this spectrum is 2-periodic above the rational cohomological dimension of G…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Daniel A. Ramras

The conformal transformations with respect to the metric defining $o(n,\mbb{C})$ give rise to a nonhomogeneous polynomial representation of $o(n+2,\mbb{C})$. Using Shen's technique of mixed product, we generalize the above representation to…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2011-05-09 Xiaoping Xu , Yufeng Zhao

We study conformal transformations in the most general parity-preserving models of the New General Relativity type. Then we apply them to analysis of cosmological perturbations in the (simplest) spatially flat cosmologies. Strong coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-24 Alexey Golovnev , A. N. Semenova , V. P. Vandeev

In this paper, we study the differential geometry of null Cartan curves under the similarity transformations in the Minkowski space-time. Besides, we extend the fundamental theorem for a null Cartan curve according to a similarity motion.…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Hakan Simsek , Mustafa Özdemir

Starting with assumptions both simple and natural from "physical" point of view we present a direct construction of transformations preserving wide class of (anti)commutation relations which describe Euclidean/Minkowski superspace…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 C. Gonera , M. Wodzislawski

We define the category of $G_2$-structures over a Riemannian 7-manifold $M$ and present an isomorphism between this category and a full subcategory of the category of octonion algebras over the ring of smooth real-valued functions…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Isak Sundelius

In this paper, we study modular forms on two simply connected groups of type $D_4$ over ${\mathbb Q}$. One group, $G_s$ is a globally split group of type $D_4$, viewed as the group of isotopies of the split rational octonions. The other,…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Martin H. Weissman

We use differential forms on loop spaces to prove that the fundamental group of certain geometric transformation groups is infinite. Examples include both finite and infinite dimensional Lie groups. The finite dimensional examples are the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Yoshiaki Maeda , Steven Rosenberg

Several classes of irreducible orthogonal representations of compact Lie groups that are of importance in Differential Geometry have the property that the second osculating spaces of all of their nontrivial orbits coincide with the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Claudio Gorodski , Gudlaugur Thorbergsson