2019/02/05 by Hongsheng Zhang
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Central charge #Conformal anomaly #Conformal field theory #Conformal geometry #Conformal gravity #Conformal map #Conformal symmetry #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Geometry #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Physics #Primary field #Quantum electrodynamics #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #Symmetry (geometry) #Weyl transformation #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2019.01.019
published in Nuclear Physics B 940, 321-331 (Elsevier BV) · 14 pages
openalex publication_date 2019/02/05 · arxiv created 2019/02/24 · arxiv updated 2019/02/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We find a new property in W 2 -conformal gravity in spherical symmetry. We demonstrate that the charge of the electromagnetic field varies with respect to the partial scaling symmetry (conformal transformations in subspaces of a spacetime) in the conformal gravity. We find that the electric and magnetic charges can vanish or appear via partial conformal transformations for the on-shell configurations in the conformal gravity. We find a solution of a Yang–Mills SU(2)-charged black hole in the conformal gravity, and further demonstrate that the SU(2) charge has similar properties with electromagnetic magnetic charges in the conformal gravity. We demonstrate how to imbed the electromagnetic and Yang–Mills SU(2) gauge field into the conformal gravity via such a symmetry. We make a brief discussion about the possibility to extend this argument to the Einstein gravity.