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Conformal Invariance in Einstein-Cartan-Weyl space

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-11-23 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider conformally invariant form of the actions in Einstein, Weyl, Einstein-Cartan and Einstein-Cartan-Weyl space in general dimensions(>2>2) and investigate the relations among them. In Weyl space, the observational consistency condition for the vector field determining non-metricity of the connection can be obtained from the equation of motion. In Einstein-Cartan space a similar role is played by the vector part of the torsion tensor. We consider the case where the trace part of the torsion is the Kalb-Ramond type of field. In this case, we express conformally invariant action in terms of two scalar fields of conformal weight -1, which can be cast into some interesting form. We discuss some applications of the result.

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@article{arxiv.0912.0432,
  title  = {Conformal Invariance in Einstein-Cartan-Weyl space},
  author = {Tae Yoon Moon and Joohan Lee and Phillial Oh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.0432},
  year   = {2010}
}

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10 pages, version to appear MPLA

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