Conformal symmetry and the role of torsion in a Maxwell-Einstein system

Nov 30, 1990
37 pages
Published in:
  • Z.Phys.C 51 (1991) 571-580
Report number:
  • IFF-TH-14-90

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Abstract: (Springer)
We develope a formalism which allows to treat Weyl symmetry with torsion as the gauge theory of the conformal group. The results of the standard Einstein—Cartan theroy are generalized and applied to the Maxwell-Einstein case.
  • Einstein-Maxwell equation
  • invariance: conformal
  • space-time: torsion
  • tensor: energy-momentum
  • spin: density
  • density: spin
  • current: dilation
  • gauge field theory
  • conservation law
  • group: conformal
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