Conformal actions in any dimension

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00367-3zbMath0951.83028arXivhep-th/9812099WikidataQ124983141 ScholiaQ124983141MaRDI QIDQ1572264

André Wehner, James T. Wheeler

Publication date: 12 July 2000

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9812099

zbMATH Keywords

conformal groupsymplecticminimal torsion geometryRicci-flat Riemannian spacetimesscale-invariant volume form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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