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A new class of conformal field theories is presented, where the background gravitational field is conformally flat. Conformally flat (CF) spacetimes enjoy conformal properties quite similar to the ones of flat spacetime. The conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 Enrique Alvarez , Raquel Santos-Garcia

We consider the conformal properties of geometries described by higher-rank line elements. A crucial role is played by the conformal Killing equation (CKE). We introduce the concept of null-flat spaces in which the line element can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Victor Tapia

Conformal symmetry is taken as an attribute of theories of massless fields in manifolds with specific dimensionalities. This paper shows that this is not an absolute truth; it is a consequence of the mathematical representation used for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Manoelito M de Souza

We answer to the question whether a system of the 3rd order ODEs describes geodesics of a conformal structure. We construct a functor from a category of conformal geometries to a category of Cartan geometries associated to the 3rd order…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-22 Alexandr Medvedev

We characterize harmonic spaces in terms of the dimensions of various spaces of radial eigen-spaces of the Laplacian $\Delta^0$ on functions and the Laplacian $\Delta^1$ on 1-forms. We examine the nature of the singularity as the geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-08 P. B. Gilkey , J. H. Park

The conformal equivalence between Jordan frame and Einstein frame can be used in order to search for exact solutions in general theories of gravity in which scalar fields are minimally or nonminimally coupled with geometry. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Salvatore Capozziello , Ruggiero de Ritis , Alma Angela Marino

The background field equations for homogeneous and isotropic spacetime are derived in conformal scalar-tensor gravity. The background temporal evolution is entirely driven by the dynamical evolution of the scalar field, i.e. particle…

General Physics · Physics 2018-10-12 Meir Shimon

We find a new family of solutions for force-free magnetic structures in cylindrical geometry. These solutions have radial power-law dependance and are periodic but non-harmonic in azimuthal direction; they generalize the vacuum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Maxim Lyutikov

We study the integrability of the conformal geodesic flow (also known as the conformal circle flow) on the $SO(3)$--invariant gravitational instantons. On a hyper--K\"ahler four--manifold the conformal geodesic equations reduce to geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Maciej Dunajski , Paul Tod

The conformally invariant symmetric traceless field $A$ is considered. In four dimensions it possesses a scalar gauge invariance to which we provide a conformally invariant gauge fixing equation. A field strength $F$ is built upon $A$, its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-08 Julien Queva

The linearisation of a second-order formulation of the conformal Einstein field equations (CEFEs) in Generalised Harmonic Gauge (GHG), with trace-free matter is derived. The linearised equations are obtained for a general background and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-09 Justin Feng , Edgar Gasperin

In this paper I shall consider field theories in a space of four-dimensions which have field variables consisting of the components of a metric tensor and scalar field. The field equations of these scalar-tensor field theories will be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-11 Gregory W. Horndeski

We introduce the concept of bi-conformal transformation, as a generalization of conformal ones, by allowing two orthogonal parts of a manifold with metric $\G$ to be scaled by different conformal factors. In particular, we study their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Alfonso García-Parrado , José M. M. Senovilla

We study teleparallel gravitational theories with are invariant under the conformal transformations. Wide family of the gravitational Lagrangians that are invariant under conformal transformations have investigated. Cosmological solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-24 Davood Momeni , Ratbay Myrzakulov

Conformal symmetries appear in many parts of physics and play a unique role in exploring the Universe. In this work, we consider the possibility of constructing conformal theories of gravity in the Symmetric Teleparallel Gravity framework,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 Viktor Gakis , Martin Krššák , Jackson Levi Said , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We use the embedding formalism to construct conformal fields in $D$ dimensions, by restricting Lorentz-invariant ensembles of homogeneous neural networks in $(D+2)$ dimensions to the projective null cone. Conformal correlators may be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 James Halverson , Joydeep Naskar , Jiahua Tian

With the present trend in experimental particle physics of probing yet shorter distances and with the requirement on the theoretical side of renormalizability, conformal invariance becomes an attractive symmetry for particle interactions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-29 A. D. Alhaidari

It has long been demonstrated that the vacuum scalar-tensor theory in the Jordan-frame Brans-Dicke parametrization is form-invariant under conformal transformations, provided that a suitable transformation of the coupling parameter $\omega$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Israel Quiros , Amit Kumar Rao

We study the Jones and Tod correspondence between selfdual conformal 4-manifolds with a conformal vector field and abelian monopoles on Einstein-Weyl 3-manifolds, and prove that invariant complex structures correspond to shear-free geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-25 David M. J. Calderbank , H. Pedersen

In this paper, it is proved that any conformal vector field is homothetic on a locally projectively flat $(\alpha,\beta)$-space of non-Randers type in dimension $n\ge 3$, and the local solutions of such a vector field are determined. While…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-13 Guojun Yang