Bemerkungen zur Konforminvarianz der Elektrodynamik und der Grundgleichungen der Dynamik

Dedicated to the memory of Julius Wess (1934Wess ( -2007, colleague and friend for many years.The historical developments of conformal transformations and symmetries are sketched: Their origin from stereographic projections of the globe, their blossoming in two dimensions within the field of analytic complex functions, the generic role of transformations by reciprocal radii in dimensions higher than two and their linearization in terms of polyspherical coordinates by Darboux, Weyl's attempt to extend General Relativity, the slow rise of finite dimensional conformal transformations in classical field theories and the problem of their interpretation, then since about 1970 the rapid spread of their acceptance for asymptotic and structural problems in quantum field theories and beyond, up to the current AdS/CFT conjecture. The occasion for the present article: hundred years ago Bateman and Cunningham discovered the form invariance of Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism with respect to conformal space-time transformations.

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On the advancements of conformal transformations and their associated symmetries in geometry and theoretical physics^*

Kastrup¹

2008

Annalen der Physik

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The historical developments of conformal transformations and symmetries are sketched: Their origin from stereographic projections of the globe, their blossoming in two dimensions within the field of analytic complex functions, the generic role of transformations by reciprocal radii in dimensions higher than two and their linearization in terms of polyspherical coordinates by Darboux, Weyl's attempt to extend General Relativity, the slow rise of finite dimensional conformal transformations in classical field theories and the problem of their interpretation, then since about 1970 the rapid spread of their acceptance for asymptotic and structural problems in quantum field theories and beyond, up to the current AdS/CFT conjecture. The occasion for the present article: hundred years ago Bateman and Cunningham discovered the form invariance of Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism with respect to conformal space‐time transformations.

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Bemerkungen zur Konforminvarianz der Elektrodynamik und der Grundgleichungen der Dynamik

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On the advancements of conformal transformations and their associated symmetries in geometry and theoretical physics

On the advancements of conformal transformations and their associated symmetries in geometry and theoretical physics^*

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Bemerkungen zur Konforminvarianz der Elektrodynamik und der Grundgleichungen der Dynamik

Cited by 4 publications

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Konforminvarianz in allgemein‐kovarianten Feldtheorien

Konforminvarianz in allgemein‐kovarianten Feldtheorien

On the advancements of conformal transformations and their associated symmetries in geometry and theoretical physics

On the advancements of conformal transformations and their associated symmetries in geometry and theoretical physics*

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On the advancements of conformal transformations and their associated symmetries in geometry and theoretical physics^*