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I discuss the conformal approach to the numerical simulation of radiating isolated systems in general relativity. The method is based on conformal compactification and a reformulation of the Einstein equations in terms of rescaled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-21 Sascha Husa

In [2], the authors develop a global correspondence between immersed weakly horospherically convex hypersurfaces $\phi:M^n \to \mathbb{H}^{n+1}$ and a class of conformal metrics on domains of the round sphere $\mathbb{S}^n$. Some of the key…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Vincent Bonini , Jie Qing , Jingyong Zhu

We study substructures of the Weyl group of conformal transformations of the metric of (pseudo)Riemannian manifolds. These substructures are identified by differential constraints on the conformal factors of the transformations which are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-10 Riccardo Martini , Gregorio Paci , Dario Sauro , Gian Paolo Vacca , Omar Zanusso

The explicit form of conformal generators is found which provides the extension of Poincare symmetry for massless particles of arbitrary helicity. The helicity 1/2 particles are considered as the particular example. The realization of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Joanna Gonera , Piotr Kosinski , Pawel Maslanka

Inspired by a similar analysis for the vacuum conformal Einstein field equations by Paetz [Ann. H. Poincar\'e 16, 2059 (2015)], in this article we show how to construct a system of quasilinear wave equations for the geometric fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-16 Diego A. Carranza , Adem E. Hursit , Juan A. Valiente Kroon

We introduce a natural extension of the metric tensor and the Hodge star operator to the algebra of double forms to study some aspects of the structure of this algebra. These properties are then used to study new Riemannian curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. -L. Labbi

Given a projective structure on a surface $N$, we show how to canonically construct a neutral signature Einstein metric with non-zero scalar curvature as well as a symplectic form on the total space $M$ of a certain rank $2$ affine bundle…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Maciej Dunajski , Thomas Mettler

Eigenfunctions are shown to constitute privileged coordinates of self-dual Einstein spaces with the underlying governing equation being revealed as the general heavenly equation. The formalism developed here may be used to link…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2021-02-03 B. G. Konopelchenko , W. K. Schief , A. Szereszewski

A metric projective structure is a manifold equipped with the unparametrised geodesics of some pseudo-Riemannian metric. We make acomprehensive treatment of such structures in the case that there is a projective Weyl curvature nullity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-28 A. Rod Gover , Vladimir S. Matveev

It has long been considered that conformal superspace is the natural configuration space for canonical general relativity. However, this was never definitively demonstrated. We have found that the standard conformal method of solving the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-21 Julian Barbour , Niall Ó Murchadha

We consider conformal and scale-invariant gravities in d dimensions, with a special focus on pure $R^2$ gravity in the scale-invariant case. In four dimensions, the structure of these theories is well known. However, in dimensions larger…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-24 Anamaria Hell , Dieter Lust

On four-dimensional closed manifolds we introduce a class of canonical Riemannian metrics, that we call weak harmonic Weyl metrics, defined as critical points in the conformal class of a quadratic functional involving the norm of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Giovanni Catino , Paolo Mastrolia , Dario D. Monticelli , Fabio Punzo

Given a parabolic geometry on a smooth manifold $M$, we study a natural affine bundle $A \to M$, whose smooth sections can be identified with Weyl structures for the geometry. We show that the initial parabolic geometry defines a reductive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Andreas Cap , Thomas Mettler

We study the relations between the projective and the almost conformally symplectic structures on a smooth even dimensional manifold. We describe these relations by a single almost conformally symplectic connection with totally trace--free…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Jan Gregorovič

We present a scale-invariant theory, conformal gravity, which closely resembles the geometrodynamical formulation of general relativity (GR). While previous attempts to create scale-invariant theories of gravity have been based on Weyl's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Edward Anderson , Julian Barbour , Brendan Foster , Niall O'Murchadha

We describe a method to generate scalar-tensor theories with Weyl symmetry, starting from arbitrary purely metric higher derivative gravity theories. The method consists in the definition of a conformally-invariant metric $\hat{g}_{\mu…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-12 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Avik Chakraborty

The Weyl geometry promises potential applications in gravity and quantum mechanics. We study the relationships between the Weyl geometry, quantum entropy and quantum entanglement based on the Weyl geometry endowing the Euclidean metric. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-21 Shi-Dong Liang , Wenjing Huang

Invariance under finite conformal transformations in Minkowski space and the Wightman axioms imply strong locality (Huygens principle) and rationality of correlation functions, thus providing an extension of the concept of vertex algebra to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Nikolay M. Nikolov , Ivan T. Todorov

A short survey of some material related to conformal general relativity (CGR), integrable Weyl geometry, and Dirac-Weyl (DW) theory is given which suggests that CGR is essentially equivalent to DW with quantum mass equivalent to conformal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-03 Robert Carroll

We prove that a simpy connected Hermitian Einstein 4-manifold with non-negative sectional curvature is isometric to complex projective space $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^{2}$ with the Fubini-Study metric or isometric to the product…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-02 Ezio Costa