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Tractors, Weyl Invariance and Mass
Mathematical Physics Seminar| Speaker: | Andrew Waldron, UCD |
| Location: | 2112 MSB |
| Start time: | Thu, Oct 23 2008, 3:10AM |
Weyl invariance can be used as a principle for constructing not only conformally invariant massless physical theories, but also massive, partially massless and gauge invariant ones. We present "Tractor Calculus"--which arose in conformal geometry--as a description of Weyl invariance in physics. We use this calculus to give new descriptions of a range of fundamental physical theories.