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We find the conditions under which scale-invariant Einstein-Cartan gravity with scalar matter fields leads to an approximate conformal invariance of the flat space particle theory up to energies of the order of the Planck mass. In the…
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Spherical reduction of generic four-dimensional theories is revisited. Three different notions of "spherical symmetry" are defined. The following sectors are investigated: Einstein-Cartan theory, spinors, (non-)abelian gauge fields and…
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We find the general form of all the supersymmetric configurations and solutions of N=2,d=4 Einstein-Yang-Mills theories. In the timelike case, which we study in great detail, giving many examples, the solutions to the full supergravity…
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Higher dimensional, direct analogues of the usual d=4 Einstein--Yang-Mills (EYM) systems are studied. These consist of the gravitational and Yang-Mills hierarchies in d=4p dimensional spacetimes, both consisting of 2p-form curvature terms…
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