De Sitter and Conformal Field Theories

Jun, 1981
65 pages
Published in:
  • Czech.J.Phys.B 32 (1982) 439-471
Report number:
  • UCLA-81-TEP-13

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Abstract: (Springer)
After a brief review of conformal gravity and conformal anomalies in field theories, this paper deals with elementary particles and quantum field theories in 3 + 2 de Sitter space and in conformal space. The importance of working in realistic space-time rather than Euclidean or spherical models, is demonstrated. The “parton-like” representations Di and Rac give rise to gauge theories of scalar and spinor fields, and a theory of interacting massless particles with all spins. This theory (in 4-dimensional de Sitter space) is constructed on the basis cf a conformally invariant field theory in 3-dimensional space-time. Conformally invariant field theories in 3 and 4 dimensional are reviewed and examined, and new proposals are made for the interpretation of massless field theories in general.
  • FIELD THEORY: DE SITTER
  • INVARIANCE: CONFORMAL
  • GRAVITATION
  • FIELD THEORY: SPACE-TIME
  • FIELD THEORY: FIVE-DIMENSIONAL
  • GROUP THEORY: MULTIPLET
  • MULTIPLET: GROUP THEORY
  • GROUP THEORY: SO(3,2)
  • PERTURBATION THEORY
  • S-MATRIX