Scaling and conformal symmetries for plane gravitational waves

2019/05/21 by Zhang, P. -M., Cariglia, M., Elbistan, M. +1 · 1 citation
#FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1905.08661

Abstract

The isometries of an exact plane gravitational wave are symmetries for both massive and massless particles. Their conformal extensions are in fact chrono-projective transformations introduced earlier by Duval et al are symmetries for massless particles. Homotheties are universal chrono-projective symmetries for any profile. Chrono-projective transformations also generate new conserved quantities for the underlying non-relativistic systems in the Bargmann framework. Homotheties play a similar role for the lightlike "vertical" coordinate as isometries play for the transverse coordinates.

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