Gauging the conformal group

Lord, EA and Goswami, P (1985) Gauging the conformal group. In: Pramana, 25 (6). pp. 635-640.

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Abstract

It is demonstrated that Kibble’s method of gauging the Poincaré group can be applied to the gauging of the conformal group. The action of the gauge transformations is the action of general spacetime diffeomorphisms (or coordinate transformations) combined with a local action of an 11-parameter subgroup of SO(4,2). Because the translational subgroup is not an invariant subgroup of the conformal group the appropriate generalisation of the derivative of a physical field is not a covariant derivative in the usual sense, but this does not lead to any inconsistencies.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Pramana
Publisher:	Indian Academy of Sciences
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Indian Academy of Sciences.
Keywords:	Conformal group;gauge theories.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Mathematics Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	20 Jan 2010 10:30
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:45
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/23381

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